YŪGEN

Hand-built tea bowls · 一椀ずつ

Vessel № 047

"To revere the cracked, the asymmetric, the slow-aged — therein lives beauty."

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寸 ∅ 12·8 cm

I — The Collection

Irregular forms, fired slow.

Eleven bowls, each thrown in a single sitting & woodfired through a forty-hour cycle in the Anagama. No two alike. Cone 11 — 1305°C.

№ 01

Akhenaton

Coarse grog · Sillabub cream glaze · wood-fired

∅ 12 cm · H 8·5 cm · 312 g

$140

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№ 02

Cymbidium

Iron-rich clay · Pine-ash green · oxidation

∅ 11 cm · H 9 cm · 286 g

$125

№ 03

Hoshi-no-Ko

Shigaraki body · ash drip · reduction

∅ 13·5 cm · H 7·2 cm

$165

№ 04

Ren-ka

Stoneware · Kintsugi repaired rim · woodfire

∅ 12·2 cm · H 8 cm · gold seam 4·1 cm

$220

№ 05

Awayuki

Porcelain blend · snow nuka · gas-fire

∅ 10·8 cm · H 9·4 cm

$118

№ 06

Kuro-Soba

Black grog · tenmoku · 38h anagama

∅ 14 cm · H 7·8 cm · 402 g

$185

II — Philosophy

The beauty of the broken.

We do not seek perfection. The bowl that leans, the rim that wavers, the glaze that pools unbidden — these are not faults to be corrected but evidence of a hand, a fire, a moment that will never recur.

— interlude

Wabi-sabi asks us to attend. To notice the iron speckle, the ash bloom, the small absences. Mono no aware — the gentle sadness of things — lives in the cooling of the kiln, in the long pause before the bowl is touched.

— the mend

When a vessel breaks, we mend it in gold. The crack becomes biography. The repair becomes the most beautiful part.

— Mizuho Tanaka · Founder

01/03

III — Workshops

Hands in clay.

Throw your own chawan beside us. A six-hour passage from raw clay to greenware, with tea served between firings. Wheels limited to four per session.

Half-day · Throw & trim3 h · ¥18,000

Full-day · Throw, trim & glaze6 h · ¥32,000

Three-day immersion22 h · ¥98,000

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