★Fukao Una (1806-1880) Antique tea cup in Shino ware #4252

- width: approx. 9cm (3 35⁄64in)

- height: approx. 8.5cm (3 11⁄32in)

- weight: 344g (w/ box 499g)

- condition: small damaged on the rim

Fukao Una (1806-1880) 
He is the 16th generation of Sonjuin, a branch of Toshogu Shrine. Common name is Enryu, and other names are Tenjiku Hanaorenin and Tsuki Doujin. After the Meiji Restoration, he took the name Kozuki Yona and became a shrine official. He was a man of ability who knew calligraphy, painting, poetry, poetry, and poetry, as well as sculpture, pottery, and tea utensils. He studied flower and bird painting under Yamamoto Baiitsu and landscape painting under Hineno Taizan. He was also a skilled calligrapher, and was a teacher of calligraphy for Tokugawa Motochiyo, the feudal lord of the Tokugawa domain. He died in 1880 at the age of 75.