Brown Japanese Tableware
Brown is the colour of the clay itself. Where other colours are made with glaze, most browns come from putting nothing on at all.
Pottery and woodwork sit together here. Some pieces are clay, cut stroke by stroke until the surface reads like tree rings. Others are actually turned from wood. Side by side in a photograph, it is not always obvious which is which.
Fired unglazed at high heat, a piece is yakishime. Wood ash that falls in the kiln and melts on the surface is shizen-yu; ash applied deliberately as a glaze is haiyu. Straw wrapped around a piece to leave scarlet lines is hidasuki, and seaweed wrapped the same way is mogake.
Artisan Works
Bowls
Makai Rice Bowl, 4.5-sun No.1 — Okinawa
$1,092.00
Sake ware
Oni-Unofu Glaze Guinomi Sake Cup
$533.00
Sake ware
Oni-Unofu Glaze Katakuchi Spouted Pourer
$1,198.00
Plates
Bronze Glaze Foliate Arabesque Mamezara Tiny Plate
$820.00
Plates
Rust Glaze Ruffle Plate, Large — Shigaraki
$1,054.00
Mugs
Sangiri Mugs, Pair — Bizen Ware
$2,342.00
Bowls
Sangiri & Hidasuki Rice Bowls, Pair — Bizen Ware
$2,050.00
Mugs
Sangiri Beer Cup — Bizen Ware
$1,611.00
Flower vase
Sangiri Top-Handle Vase No.1 — Bizen Ware
$1,757.00
Sake ware
Sangiri Tokkuri Sake Carafe — Bizen Ware
$1,464.00
Object
Sangiri Robot Figure No.1 — Bizen Ware
$2,196.00
Bowls
Sangiri Donburi Bowl — Bizen Ware
$2,050.00
