Sweets Bowl

The simply elegant shape of this sweets bowl allows one to fully appreciate its yellow glaze. Like Yohei III’s other monochrome, undecorated pieces, this one emulates Chinese prototypes. The box lid identifies the work’s coloration with an unusual name, hongama kōtekiji. Hongama means “high-fired,” and the inventive phrasing kōteki may mean something akin to “lustrous yellow.”