Blue Japanese Tableware
Blue has been in use longer than any other colour on Japanese tableware. Laying indigo on a white ground is enough to pull a table together.
There are two ways to arrive at it. Blue that is painted, and blue that the glaze itself becomes. The first has an outline, like a drawing. The second spreads as a surface. Okinawan pieces offer a third: a dense blue laid over thick clay.
Drawing with gosu pigment, then covering it with clear glaze and firing, is sometsuke. The pigment itself is gosu, and painting beneath the glaze is shita-etsuke. When iron in the glaze turns blue-green in a reduction firing, that is seiji.
Artisan Works
Teramoto Shiori
Large Bowl — Seto Porcelain
¥3,960
Bowls
Utsuwa no Yukue
Pine Ash Glaze Compact Mug
¥3,500
Japanese Coffee Cups
Furutani pottery
Gosu Blue Line Rice Bowl, Small — Shigaraki
¥2,420
Japanese Rice Bowls
Higuchi Maki
Squid Diamond Plate
¥4,400
Plates
Higuchi Maki
Grape Oval Plate
¥8,800
Plates
Japanese Coffee Cups
Line-Carved Ao Mug, Blue — Okinawa
¥4,950
Tobo Usurai
Ice-Crackle Rice Bowl, Large — Bubble Blue
¥4,400
Japanese Rice Bowls
Utsuwa no Yukue
Pine Ash Glaze Mug, Extra Large
¥6,000
Japanese Coffee Cups
jiucasca
Sometsuke Floral Vase — Kyoto
¥3,300
Japanese Vases
Tobo Usurai
水泡氷裂貫入釉 コーヒーカップ(中)
¥4,950
Japanese Mugs
Ichirun Tobo
Blue Landscape Footed Plate
¥3,520
Plates
Suirin Kiln
Ruri Glaze Deep Bowl
¥3,300
Bowls
