tea bowl

This is a remix of vik's tea bowl in which I:

• created a more "closed" shape by cutting off the flared upper body 胴 (dō)
• enable gripping of the tea bowl—e.g., for wiping it—by creating a 高台内 (kōdai-uchi), formed by hollowing out a shallow cylinder from the kōdai

The version seen in the photograph is tea-bowl-rev2.stl but vertically stretched in the slicing software. This vertical stretch is incorporated into tea-bowl-rev3.stl, as is an attempt at a rounded lip.

This bowl still suffers some flaws from a functional point of view: it lacks a concave 茶溜まり (chadamari), but most importantly the lip 口造り (kuchitsukuri) is not round enough for a comfortable drinking experience. I'm working on addressing these shortcomings with future tea bowl designs.