Kiyowa yaki
Chawan, tea bowl - 福以徳招 - “Getting fortune by engaging virtue.”Signed: Tofuku & kaô
Seals: Kiyowa
Technique: Gohonde Kyôyaki with an underglaze tetsu-e iron oxide inscription Ø 13 x 7,7
Box: signed
Condition: fine
Box inscription: 福以徳招 東福時宗 Fukui tokushô, Getting fortune by engaging virtue
[signed:] Tôfukuji sô & kaô
[Seals:] on chakin, whiping cloth: 東福管長、晦宗, Tofuku kanchô & Kaishû
Ekyo (Kaishû) was born in Mie-ken. He served at both Myoshin-ji first and at Tofuku-ji later. In 1907 he went to the Nanzenji and in 1921 he started a zen training school at the Myoshin-ji.
Ekyô was 299th Head Abbot of Tofuku-ji and 12th Head of Tofuku-ji sect.
Reference:
Moog p. 217
Price: EUR 450 / USD 486
