Cleveland Museum of Art

Teapot from Tea Set with Chinese Landscape

Seifū Yohei III

Date

1893–1914

Medium

Porcelain with underglaze blue

Culture

Japan, Meiji period (1868–1912)

Department

Japanese Art

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

This tea set with idyllic lakeside Chinese landscapes has a side-handled pot called a kyūsu , used for steeping, straining, and serving tea. Unlike some others, this set also has a yuzamashi , a container used to cool boiled water to just the right temperature for the best flavor when steeping. Seifū Yohei III’s painting teacher, Tanomura Chokunyū (1814–1907), made a visual record of famous sencha events that shows how these kinds of porcelains fit with objects such as a stove and kettle to form a complete set of utensils for tea preparation, and with ensembles of decorative objects meant to inspire creativity The side-handled pot is called a kyūsu , used for steeping, straining, and serving tea.

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