Tea Bowel Universe

A single dark grey-black tea bowl, its irregular rim ringed with a pale interior glaze, sits centered against a mottled reddish-brown background that darkens to near-black at the top; below, the bowl rests on a golden-yellow surface incised with a fine grid of dark horizontal and vertical lines. The bowl's textured, uneven walls are rendered with visible woodgrain and scratch-like striations, giving the vessel a rough, weathered surface within an otherwise still, quiet composition. *Tea Bowel Universe*, a 2001 Japanese woodcut by Nana Shiomi.