White Japanese Tableware
White gives way to the food more than any other colour. Nothing muddies on it, and empty space stays empty space.
The whites here are not one white. White slip over red clay, with the warmth of the clay showing faintly through. Stone-based porcelain fired hard enough to pass light. And white laid down as a ground for painting: the peaches, grapes, squid and white-eyes only hold their outlines because that ground is there.
Most of the softer whites are kohiki, which slowly takes in tea and oil until the colour settles. Brush marks left visible in the slip are hakeme, and laying a white layer over the clay at all is shirogeshou. The bluish white that passes light is seihakuji.
Artisan Works
Mugs
Ash-Blue Glaze Coffee Cup — Kyoto
$1,349.00
Plates
Blue-White Porcelain Foliate Arabesque Plate, Small
$880.00
Plates
Dove Mamezara Tiny Plate
$968.00
Plates
Grape Footed Stand
$1,173.00
Plates
Foliate Oval Plate, Brown No.1
$1,120.00
Tea ware
Grape Free Cup, Red Fruit and Leaves
$1,173.00
Tea ware
Grape Free Cup, Blue and Red
$1,173.00
Sake ware
Walk to the Moon Guinomi Sake Cup — Kyoto
$960.00
Plates
Walk to the Moon Small Plate — Kyoto
$667.00
Plates
Rooster Diamond Plate
$1,027.00
Bowls
Floral Shinogi Katakuchi Spouted Bowl, White
$734.00
Plates
Shinogi Ceramic Slab Plate, 24cm White — Shigaraki
$1,848.00
