Item YI192

Beishoku Celadon
Incense Burner

(1pc. & signed box)

¥ 260,000

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Ikai Yuichi

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No other tea ceremony accessory has quite the same spiritual function as kouro.  Incense wafting from the holes in the lid helps to clear the mind, making participants more attuned to the tranquility inside the tea room.  More than just mere burners, kouro should be both decorative and contemplative pieces themselves.

This incense burner (kouro) by Ikai Yuichi is done in beishoku celadon.  The glaze takes its name from the light beige color of rice chaff which, unlike the blue and green celadons produced in China and Korea, is unique only to Japan - appreciated for its austere quality that touches at the heart of the wabi aesthetic.  It came from the kiln imbued with a sublime vision of sky.  Like a cloud, it drifts from one genre to another, with beishoku hues blending into gray then leading into a patch of blue sky fully expressed in the lid.

Kouro of this type are traditionally used for holding pieces of smoldering charcoal upon which powdered incense is burned.  This piece can accommodate stick-type incense as well.

See Ikai Yuichi's Kintetsu Exhibition pictorial for more from his 2008 collection

A wooden presentation box will be custom made to order and signed by the artist.  Delivery time for this item is 2 weeks.


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