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A hand built red raku matcha bowl by Shoraku Kiln in the Sonyu Hanaikada style, with a low settled form, deep terracotta red glaze shifting to darker iron passages, and a small grounded foot, photographed against a white background.
Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl
Shoraku Kiln

Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl

Sale price$318.00

Hanaikada, flower raft, is the name given to one of Sonyu's representative red raku chawan, evoking the classical Japanese image of cherry blossom petals scattered across still water, drifting together in a fleeting, wordless composition. Sonyu, the 5th generation head of the Raku family, worked during the ornate Genroku era of late 17th-century Kyoto yet chose to move against its decorative current, returning instead to the austere wabi spirit that Chojiro had established a century before. The form sits low and settled at the waist, grounded and unhurried. Across its surface, deep terracotta red shifts into darker iron passages where the firing has drawn the glaze into shadow, with a quieter, whitish tone emerging elsewhere, the whole surface carrying the kind of unplanned variation that earned Sonyu's glaze work its enduring reputation. This chawan by Shoraku Kiln follows that lineage with care, hand-built in a tradition that has stood at the center of Japanese tea culture for over 400 years.

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 Sonyu Hanaikada style, with a low settled form, deep terracotta red glaze shifting to darker iron passages, and a small grounded foot, photographed against a white background.
Sonyu Hanaikada Style Red Raku Matcha Bowl Sale price$318.00

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.