黒根来手付木瓶くろねごろてつきもくびん

  • 室町時代
  • 15c
  • 木製黒漆、朱漆塗
  • H-36.2 D-30
解説(春の玉手箱)

 ボリュームのある胴が印象的な水次。手取りは軽く、桐のような材を刳って漆を塗ったものと思われる。底部に文明三年(一四七一)の朱文字がある。箱書から奈良西大寺の茶会で使用されたこと、江戸期の文人、木村蒹葭堂や田能村竹田の旧蔵であったことなどが知られ、文人好みの道具であったことが分かる。水や湯茶を入れての注瓶として、また花入に見立てるのも面白い。何気ない什器だが、把手や注口と胴の織り成す線が心地よく、見る者の心を解きほぐすような大らかな美しさに溢れている。

Catalogue Entry

This water pitcher has a full, weighty torso. The bottle is light overall, seemingly carved from some light wood such as paulownia, and has been coated in lacquer. The base is inscribed with the date Bunmei 3, or 1471, drawn in red lacquer characters. The box inscription indicates that this work was used at a tea ceremony at Saidaiji temple in Nara, and that it was formerly in the collection of the Edo period literati, Kimura Kenkado and Tanomura Chikuden. It is clearly a form of tea utensil which would have been greatly appreciated by men of literati taste. This type of pitcher would have bee used to pour water or hot tea, or could have also been used as an interesting form of flower vase. This vessel with its nonchalant, unstudied air has a lovely flow of lines from handle to spout and torso, filling its viewers with a warm, expansive sense of beauty.