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Soft. That is the first word for this bowl.

Not white exactly, more the pale warm tone of early morning light on clay, with a blush of peach that deepens toward the foot and fades near the rim. It shifts depending on where you hold it. In shade it reads warm and rosy. In direct light it almost disappears into the clay beneath it. The form is generous and low, the kind of chawan that settles into two hands naturally, and the rough dark foot ring anchors everything.

This is shira-Hagi, the white Hagi style, made with the characteristic straw ash glaze over Daido clay from Yamaguchi Prefecture. The glaze sits on the clay like a pale morning sky, rosy and warm, shifting between peach and white depending on the light.

This bowl was made by Yamato Yoshitaka (大和吉孝), tenth-generation master of Matsuroku-gama in Miyano, Yamaguchi, during the Taishō period. The kiln's lineage begins with the Mōri clan's official Tōkōji kiln in Hagi, one of the historically significant lines in Japanese ceramic history.

Complete with the original signed tomobako wooden storage box, the original printed kiln document, and a fitted silk drawstring pouch.