Antique Japanese Taisho Era Imari Vase Shochikubai 11" Chawan and often intricate inlays

and often intricate inlays

This is a ceramic bowl known as a chawan (tea bowl) used in a Japanese chado (tea ceremony)

It is expertly decorated with a Dragon on one side and the magical Phoenix on the other

See the video above for a demonstration

Antique Japanese Taisho Era Imari Vase Shochikubai 11" Chawan and often intricate inlaysThis is an antique Taisho Era (c. 1920's) Japanese Imari Vase. It is hand painted in with motif. Shochikubai When describing auspicious things, the Japanese often use the compound term composed of 3 separate words, Sho Chiku Bai (). Shochikubai has the literal meaning of pine (Sho ), bamboo (Chiku ), and ume plum (Bai ). The origin of the Japanese term Shochikubai () comes from Saikan no Sanyu ( Three Friends of Winter), a subject loved by ancient