Signed Tea Ceremony Chawan Tea Bowl w/ Gold Clouds & Multicolored Hills Shibori This tsuba is made with

This tsuba is made with forged steel and is in the shape of a marugata and has what appears to be pine limb shaped openwork as well as engraved tiny x shaped fower patterns

Engraved with the sword smiths mei is engraved near the nakakgo hitsuana

5" Nishimura Hodo giclée reproduction print of a Japanese ukiyo-e (woodblock print) from c

“Kenzan” are used to stand flowers at the correct height and angle when arranging in a vase

and 11 (1936) with a clear crest of the paulownia mon (a famous family crest) in the center

Signed Tea Ceremony Chawan Tea Bowl w/ Gold Clouds & Multicolored Hills Shibori This tsuba is made withThis is a ceramic bowl known as a chawan (tea bowl) used in a Japanese chado (tea ceremony). With genial doling hills and golden clouds reminiscent of the Heian era. Suitable more for the summer season, its thin walls allow the tea to cool faster during the hot summer months. It has lovely colorful wash glazes embellished with hazy soft gold. This chawan measures 5" wide at its widest by 3" tall. Having been in storage for 70 years it remains in fine