temmokun.

1880 A. W. Franks Japanese Pottery 5 A tea bowl of porcelain or earthenware (cha-wan, or, when of large size, temmoku), simple in form, but remarkable for its antiquity or historical associations.

1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain I. 31 Temmoku..glaze is sometimes flecked with tea green as well as with golden brown.

1915 R. L. Hobson Chinese Pottery & Porcelain I. 131 The Japanese..have always prized the Chien Yao bowls to which they gave the name temmoku.

1923 R. L. Hobson & A. L. Hetherington Art Chinese Potter 15 The name temmoku (t'ien mu, or Eye of Heaven) was first given to a bowl, probably of Fukien origin, brought to Japan during the Sung period by a Zen priest from the Zen temple of the T'ien mu shan (Eye of Heaven mountain) in the north~west of Chekiang. In later times the generic name of temmoku came to be applied to the whole category of wares of this type.

1924 Trans. Oriental Ceramic Soc. 1923–4 26 (title) The chemistry of the Temmoku glazes.

1934 Burlington Mag. May 214/1 Temmoku tea bowls with the ‘hare's fur’ glaze... They have a blackish stone-ware body, and a thick, lustrous black glaze streaked with hair lines of brown and silver.

1940 B. Leach Potter's Bk. viii. 231 Into the tenmoku I dipped several large jars and bowls.

1958 W. Willetts Chinese Art II. vi. 394 Temmoku bowls..made to-day at P‘êng-ch‘êng.., and at T‘ai-yüan.., which in many respects can hardly be told apart from their Sung models.

1971 S. Jenyns Japanese Pottery iii. 84 The glazes particularly associated with the Toshiros and their successors for tea ceremony wares are of this tenmoku variety: ‘thick’ and semi-transparent but coloured often to opacity by the presence of iron oxide.

1976 Canadian Collector Mar.–Apr. 43/1 In Japan this type of black-glazed ware became known as temmoku.