Wisteria Tea Bowl - Kyoto Ninsei Type
Wisteria flowers begin to appear as spring deepens, cascading from trellises erected in many Kyōto temples, shrines, and parks.
Thanks to their resilience, wisteria have come to symbolise longevity and even immortality. The 1200 year old trees in Saitama's Tōka-en Wisteria Garden (藤花園) are some of Japan's oldest.
In kabuki (歌舞伎) the flowers represent love, tenderness and sensitivity.
The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏), a powerful family that utterly dominated politics in the Heian period, took the wisteria as their crest: a design of hanging wisteria flowers called 'sagari-fuji' (下がり藤) and an upturned wisteria called 'agari-fuji' (上がり藤).
This is a Ninsei style tea bowl.
Ninsei (仁清) was a Japanese potter, who lived in the Edo Period, roughly between the 1640s to the 1690s. He is often credited as one of the key founders and influencers of 'Kyō ware', a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Kyoto. He perfected colourful painted pottery.
Dimensions: w12.5cm x d12.5cm x h7.5cm
Wisteria flowers begin to appear as spring deepens, cascading from trellises erected in many Kyōto temples, shrines, and parks.
Thanks to their resilience, wisteria have come to symbolise longevity and even immortality. The 1200 year old trees in Saitama's Tōka-en Wisteria Garden (藤花園) are some of Japan's oldest.
In kabuki (歌舞伎) the flowers represent love, tenderness and sensitivity.
The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏), a powerful family that utterly dominated politics in the Heian period, took the wisteria as their crest: a design of hanging wisteria flowers called 'sagari-fuji' (下がり藤) and an upturned wisteria called 'agari-fuji' (上がり藤).
This is a Ninsei style tea bowl.
Ninsei (仁清) was a Japanese potter, who lived in the Edo Period, roughly between the 1640s to the 1690s. He is often credited as one of the key founders and influencers of 'Kyō ware', a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Kyoto. He perfected colourful painted pottery.
Dimensions: w12.5cm x d12.5cm x h7.5cm
Wisteria flowers begin to appear as spring deepens, cascading from trellises erected in many Kyōto temples, shrines, and parks.
Thanks to their resilience, wisteria have come to symbolise longevity and even immortality. The 1200 year old trees in Saitama's Tōka-en Wisteria Garden (藤花園) are some of Japan's oldest.
In kabuki (歌舞伎) the flowers represent love, tenderness and sensitivity.
The Fujiwara clan (藤原氏), a powerful family that utterly dominated politics in the Heian period, took the wisteria as their crest: a design of hanging wisteria flowers called 'sagari-fuji' (下がり藤) and an upturned wisteria called 'agari-fuji' (上がり藤).
This is a Ninsei style tea bowl.
Ninsei (仁清) was a Japanese potter, who lived in the Edo Period, roughly between the 1640s to the 1690s. He is often credited as one of the key founders and influencers of 'Kyō ware', a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Kyoto. He perfected colourful painted pottery.
Dimensions: w12.5cm x d12.5cm x h7.5cm