[Tea Utensils/Tea Utensils Matcha Tea Bowl] Totoya Marukogama

What is a Totoya tea bowl? It is also written as Uoya and is a type of Goryeo tea bowl.
The name Totoya is said to have come from the fact that Rikyu discovered it on the shelves of a fish shop in Sakai, or from a tea bowl owned by a Sakai merchant called Totoya.
This is a type of Goryeo tea bowl made in South Gyeongsang Province on the Korean Peninsula in the 16th century, and has an extremely thin glaze that gives it an overall shiny luster.
On the inside, there are traces of the bowls being stacked and fired, and the base is crescent-shaped.

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Size: Approx. diameter 14.2 x height 7.1 cm
Artist: Maruko Kiln
Box: Wooden box
●Korean tea bowls are tea bowls made in Korea after the Muromachi period. They refer to the majority of Chinese tea bowls, including Oido, Aido, Koido, Wakiido, Kumagawa (Komogae), Katate, Totoya, Irabo, Kobiki, Omoto Mishima, etc. (A general term for Korean products as opposed to Chinese-made "Chinese tea utensils").
...The highlights of tea bowls are...
1. Overall shape of the vessel...the atmosphere it exudes...the look, etc.
2. It has a high base, exposed earthenware, kairagi (umekakawa) and waist construction.
3. The rim, the inside of the cup, the tea bowl, the tea whisk, etc. And the "feel in the hand" - "beauty of utility" - is the most important thing.

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