34+ Hon'ami Koetsu Tea Bowl Mount Fuji Pictures. Koetsu's tea bowls can be largely divided into two types. The mouth is curved outward, the black glaze applied with deliberate irregularity around the mouth and the area of the body to show the red clay texture underneath.
Kyoto ware cylindrical tea bowl in style of koetsu, attributed to eiraku zengoro workshop 19th century, stoneware with white slip and black pigment under this is a wan shaped tea bowl made of coarse, unrefined clay with a high content of iron oxide.
It is representative of kôetsu's tea bowl. In the late 1590s, he became interested in ceramics, especially raku tea bowls of a thin, delicate nature. Hon'ami was born into a family of sword polishers and connoisseurs who had served the imperial court as well as. Grey raku tea bowl called fujisan (mount fuji).