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Hagi Tea Bowl

Ceramics

Craft Artist: Takao Tahara

ORIGIN: Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture
RELEASE: 2019
SIZE: φ134mm × H83mm
MATERIAL: Clay

Scenery of tea ceremony

A beautiful Hagi tea bowl which has gentle textures and fine crackles. This piece inherits the tradition of Hagi from the generations and evokes the ancient tea ceremony. This Hagi tea bowl whose color deepens each time we make tea, and the devotion of the artist who connects the unwavering tradition to the future of Hagi, seems to be overlapped.