Kuro Raku Tea Bowl

[Henry Wilson]

Just saw your post. Thanks Philip for the lovely bowl

[Aloof Pegasus]

Hello Bernard & Henry (my pleasure, Henry)

 

Here's something you don't see every day, a Shigaraki ichirinzashi from Aiko Watanabe 2011. I've only seen one other but I'm sure there must be more!

 

It belongs to a friend.

[Bernard]

Pure lines, Japanese aestheticism...and beautiful with the cherry blossoms !

Thank you Philip.

Bernard D

[John A Stuart]

Perfect for a tokanoma, I like that ichirinzashi very much. John

[Bernard]

I had promised to post some pics when I receive my new Iga tokkuri.

Bernard D.

[John A Stuart]

Dali would be at home with some of these ceramics. You really need to hold and fondle these objects, they are tactile. John

[Aloof Pegasus]

Nice Bernard thanks for posting. Yr pics make the piece much more appealing. Pace Christian maybe 'cruel' should be withdrawn?

 

You are changing my taste in yakimono.

[Aloof Pegasus]

Here's an Akaraku chawan with kintsugi suitable for a cherry blossom viewing party. Vintage or older, the box is certainly rickety enough for a Meiji piece.

[Bernard]

Thank you Philip. Your last post reminds me of a raku chawan I had posted on the forum long ago, also with a kitsungi...

Here are the pics.

Bernard D

[Aloof Pegasus]

Nice bowl Bernard. All the posting on this new section, digging out various bowls for sale and so on has re-ignited my interest in tea. But in preparation for this evening's debauch here's another Aiko San Iga guinomi from 2012.

[Bernard]

Philip, where did you get all these appealing Aiko Watanabe potteries ? On the Net ? From a specialized gallery ? Directly from the potter ? I guess that living in Japan facilitates the purchase of such items. What are your experiments in this field, as you are living in (near ?) Tokyo ?

Let's stay in Iga wares. Here are some pics of a small guinomi by Furutani Kazuya and a link to the potter website.

Bernard D 

http://furutani-kazuya.com/

[Aloof Pegasus]

Hello Bernard

 

Nice guinomi mate! I like that one.

 

Going round Izu visiting onsen and kilns as perhaps Chris used to do when he was living there is fun. As you know anagama are only fired twice or thrice a year and I never managed to fit in with Aiko chan's or any other Iga or Shigaraki kiln's schedule.

 

I did visit a Bizen place where they will send it on once fired after a week or so and made a tokkuri, subsequently the cause of much hilarity. It was so heavy I used to hide it in my mates backpacks before a day on the hills. It went up Takaosan twice and Oyama once before the inevitable happened.

 

Here's a chawan I also made along with a sake cup by the resident potter, both Bizen in style. You roll clay into long cylinders and build them up before trying to shape in an interesting way, easier said than done as you can see. I wasn't allowed to attempt a koudai (or to sit with the other students).

 

I'll pm you some links after I remember their names- been a while since my last purchase.

[Bernard]

Hello Philip,

 

Thank you very much for these informations  (very interesting  ).

 

Here is a pic of the inside of the guinomi in post #58.

 

 

Bernard D

[Aloof Pegasus]

The post 58 guinomi arrived then? That's got quite a lot to it, hasn't it!

 

Here's some morning tea without ceremony pics to compliment Henry's. Bowl is by Keinyu (1817-1902). His stamp shown below is the one on the underside and is the earliest version. He had four throughout his long lifetime.

[Aloof Pegasus]

Hello Bernard

 

Thought you'd like to see pics of Aiko's kiln.

 

Link to an exhibition in 2014 here

 

 

http://www.kurodatouen.com/blog/watanabeopen

[Bernard]

This is great! Thank you so much, Philip.

Bernard D

[Bernard]

Here are pics of a black glaze Tanba guinomi by Onishi Masafumi, a link to some informations about this potter and a link to his Internet site.

Bernard D

 

http://www.artisticnippon.com/product/tanbayaki/tanbun_kiln/about_tanbungama.html

 

http://tanbungama.com/

[Aloof Pegasus]

Thanks for posting the Tanba guinomi, Bernard. I hadn't come across this potter before.

 

 

Here's a link to an American potter living here. I like the guinomi and some other pieces. his blog is full of info about his experiments with ash/glaze mixes, and often illustrates the different results from the pot in question's position inside the anagama.

 

http://karatsupots.com/wordpress/2014/11/e-madara-karatsu-yunomiguinomi.html

[Aloof Pegasus]

Here's a Karatsu sake cup by Fujinoki Dohei 2015 production.

[Bernard]

Thank you Philip for posting this beautiful sake cup (I love it !) and for the link .

Bernard D

[Aloof Pegasus]

Here's a couple of Aiko Watanabe yunomi, simple every day items of use that show off the great Shigaraki clay. One of the truly unencumbered pleasures of life in Japan is to find yourself being served in some restaurant or other with this level of cup or plate or tokkuri.

[Bernard]

Lucky Japanese people !  

 

" Tokkuri", "guinomi", "yunomi", "Iga", "Shigaraki"...here is a  link to an interesting article dealing with Japanese ceramics terminology :

 

http://www.ceramicstoday.com/articles/japanese_terminology.htm

 

Bernard D

[Aloof Pegasus]

Great link Bernard.

 

Btw here's a link to a good, reasonably priced tomobako maker where they speak English. Sanadahimo and paper cover incl in the price.

 

http://www.mihagi.co.jp/user_data/en-woodenbox.php

[Bernard]

Thank you Philip for introducing the tomobako.

 

Here is a link to a short video entitled "Tomobako, a brief history of using wooden boxes in Japanese ceramics" :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5E1qlndDI0

 

...and some pics of an illustrated tomobako for an Oribe tokkuri (11.5 X 8cm) by Fukami Fuminori, a potter who is also a cartoonist.

 

Bernard D.

[Bernard]

...and here is its mate : a Narumi Oribe guinomi by Makoto Yamaguchi.

 

Bernard D.

 

 

[Aloof Pegasus]

My first time to see pieces like this, Bernard! Manga yakimono! Got to have legs! You really do have wide ranging taste. Thanks for showing them to us.

[Aloof Pegasus]

Here's a link to urushi ware made by Kasho Yoshida in Kaga.

 

http://kasyouchaki.jimdo.com/作品紹介/棗/

[Fuuten]

As this topic turned out be a sort of show and tell, and the last few photo's fixated on Oribe yaki, i'll share my all time favorite chawan

 

 

 

[Aloof Pegasus]

I hope no one minds my resurrecting this pottery thread. It's been a while since I've posted here and surely there ought to be many beautiful new acquisitions owners would be willing to share.

For my part I have made no new purchases in the interim. However this cup came into my keeping recently, not Japanese but from a place called Wang Kum Karm 20 to 30 k south of Chiangmai.

The characteristic blue green glaze from this area is achieved from bark ash from a local tree mixed with celadon clay from Lamphun.made for use by ordinary people not export and around 200 years before Chiangmai Old Kingdom.

[sabi]

Wanted to bring this one back from the dead just for kicks as the original bowl in this thread is now with me. It's traveled quite a bit to get here!

 

Thanks Philip for plucking this from wherever you happened to find it. A wonderful piece with some serious age that I'm honored to look after.