Japanese Pottery Glossary
Mogake: The Red Seaweed Lines of Tokoname Pottery
Mogake is a Tokoname technique in which dried seaweed is wrapped around a piece before firing, leaving red lines wherever it touched. According to Tokoname Tounomori and the official Six...
Mogake: The Red Seaweed Lines of Tokoname Pottery
Mogake is a Tokoname technique in which dried seaweed is wrapped around a piece before firing, leaving red lines wherever it touched. According to Tokoname Tounomori and the official Six...
Kinsai: Gold Fired Over the Glaze in Japanese C...
Kinsai is decoration in which gold-bearing pigment is painted onto the glaze of an already fired piece and fired again at a lower temperature. It is one form of overglaze...
Kinsai: Gold Fired Over the Glaze in Japanese C...
Kinsai is decoration in which gold-bearing pigment is painted onto the glaze of an already fired piece and fired again at a lower temperature. It is one form of overglaze...
Ash Glaze (Haiyu): The Origin of High-Fired Jap...
Ash glaze is a glaze made by blending the ash of burnt wood or straw with feldspar and clay, then firing it on a pot at high temperature. Unlike natural...
Ash Glaze (Haiyu): The Origin of High-Fired Jap...
Ash glaze is a glaze made by blending the ash of burnt wood or straw with feldspar and clay, then firing it on a pot at high temperature. Unlike natural...
Seihakuji: White Porcelain Where Blue Pools in ...
Seihakuji is porcelain made by covering a white porcelain body with a clear glaze holding the faintest trace of iron, fired to a white tinged with blue. Flat surfaces stay...
Seihakuji: White Porcelain Where Blue Pools in ...
Seihakuji is porcelain made by covering a white porcelain body with a clear glaze holding the faintest trace of iron, fired to a white tinged with blue. Flat surfaces stay...
Iro-Nabeshima: Porcelain Fired Only as Tribute ...
Iro-Nabeshima is the porcelain fired at the Saga domain's kiln in Okawachiyama during the Edo period, painted mainly in red, yellow and green over a blue underglaze. It was made...
Iro-Nabeshima: Porcelain Fired Only as Tribute ...
Iro-Nabeshima is the porcelain fired at the Saga domain's kiln in Okawachiyama during the Edo period, painted mainly in red, yellow and green over a blue underglaze. It was made...
Gintsugi: Silver Kintsugi, and Why the Silver T...
Gintsugi joins a break with lacquer and finishes the seam in silver powder. The process is identical to kintsugi; only the metal laid on at the end is different. Silver...
Gintsugi: Silver Kintsugi, and Why the Silver T...
Gintsugi joins a break with lacquer and finishes the seam in silver powder. The process is identical to kintsugi; only the metal laid on at the end is different. Silver...