Kyo ware / Heian Tosai, Nakamura Tosai creation / Gold colored painting bamboo and bamboo grass design Mizusashi (freshwater jar) / Tea ceremony utensil / Pottery

Kyo-yaki Nakamura Tousai Bamboo and Bamboo Grass Colored Painting Mizusashi (Water Jar) Tea Ceremony Utensil
*No shared box included.

This water jar was used by my aunt, who was a tea ceremony teacher during the Showa era. It is being sold as part of a warehouse clean-out and decluttering.

⬛︎Size ● Height: 14cm ● Width: 13.5cm ● Mouth diameter (inner): 10.3cm

◎The meaning of prosperity and resilience embodied in bamboo:
Bamboo, with its appearance of growing straight towards the sky, is considered a plant symbolizing growth and prosperity. Furthermore, due to its flexible and unbreakable nature, it is also known to represent strong perseverance in the face of adversity. The motif of bamboo signifies:
Symbolizing growth and prosperity of descendants, immortality, longevity, and strength. Bamboo grows quickly, with bamboo shoots rapidly becoming magnificent young bamboo stalks, and it continuously sprouts new shoots, thus symbolizing growth and the prosperity of descendants.

★Nakamura Tousai
Born in 1918, First Nakamura Tousai was born in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City.
Dedicated to overglaze painting under his father's guidance in Kyoto's Gojo-zaka.
Exhibited annually at the Overglaze Painting Ceramic Art Exhibition.
Exhibited at the Frankfurt Messe in West Germany in 1974.
Passed away in 1976.
Born in 1947, Second Nakamura Tousai was born in Higashiyama Ward, Kyoto City.
Trained under his father, First Tousai.
Donated works to Xi'an City, China in 1985.
Exhibited annually at the Overglaze, Kyo-yaki, and Kiyomizu-yaki exhibitions.