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A hand built red raku matcha bowl by Shoraku Kiln in the Chojiro Jirobo style, with a rounded waist, inward turning rim, subtle asymmetry, deep terracotta red glaze, and white glaze in vertical passages across the exterior, photographed against a white background.
Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Shoraku Kiln

Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl

Sale price$338.00

Jirobo is one of the named red raku chawan attributed to Chojiro, and its character lies in the way the form holds itself. The body rounds fully at the waist before the rim draws inward with a contained, considered restraint. One side of the rounded body is subtly tightened, a deliberate asymmetry that keeps the eye moving without announcing itself. A ridge at the mid-body pulls the form inward at that point, giving the silhouette a quiet articulation. The interior is deep, with a shallow well at the center that gathers the tea. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln works within that form, its surface finished in deep terracotta red with white glaze descending in vertical passages across the exterior, a bowl shaped by the red raku tradition that Chojiro established in 16th century Kyoto under the influence of Sen no Rikyu.

This bowl is accompanied by OG Matcha Kakitsubata from Osada Tea, selected to complete the tea experience.
A hand built red raku matcha bowl by Shoraku Kiln in the Chojiro Jirobo style, with a rounded waist, inward turning rim, subtle asymmetry, deep terracotta red glaze, and white glaze in vertical passages across the exterior, photographed against a white background.
Chojiro Jirobo Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl Sale price$338.00

Meet the Artisan

Shoraku Kiln

Shoraku Kiln was founded in 1905 in Kyoto, when Sasaki Kichinosuke left the city's central district and established a Raku ware kiln at the foot of Kiyomizudera Temple, dedicating it entirely to the production of tea bowls for chanoyu. Over the following century, the kiln drew the personal guidance of some of Japan's most significant cultural and spiritual figures, including Daitoku-ji head priests Goto Zuigan and Fukutomi Settei, and the religious leader Deguchi Onisaburo, who bestowed upon the kiln the name Shoraku, a name carrying the quiet weight of that trust.

The kiln later relocated to Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture, a town wrapped in mountain mist whose stillness the Sasaki family regards as naturally consonant with the spirit of wabi-cha. Now in its fourth generation, Shoraku Kiln shapes every tea bowl entirely by hand, firing black Raku with glaze ground from Kamo River stone and red Raku at lower temperatures to coax out its characteristically soft warmth. At the heart of the practice is a conviction that a tea bowl should not assert itself, but simply be present, creating stillness and space for the moment of tea to unfold.