Drip Glaze

Glaze is ladled over the piece from above, and after that it is left to run. Where it stops is decided by how thick the glaze is, how dry the body is, and the temperature of the kiln.

A beige unofu glaze laid over a dark-brown iron glaze, the seam hanging down like a thick tongue. A white glaze running from the rim over a black body and stopping partway. Poured by the same steps, no two of them end up with the same line.

It is made differently from shizen-yu, where ash falls inside the kiln and melts. That one the kiln makes; this one a person pours. But once it has been poured it leaves the maker's hands, so what the maker can decide is only which glaze, from where, and how much. Pieces that came out as intended and pieces that came out unexpectedly sit on the same shelf.