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IGA?
Iga, I do not think so but rather Canadian! What you are in fact looking at is a gift that came with a pot a short while back by Bruce Cochrane. This simple slab dish wood fired which securely rests on...
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GROUP PHOTO
A while back I ended up throwing a couple dozen covered box forms and here is one group photo of four of them, some have been posted before. In this group all in one form of Oribe or another, the...
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WONDERFUL MEMORIES
This is an old picture, converted from a 35mm slide to a digital image some while back, pictured are four jugs drying slowly having been made by Bill Klock sometime back in the 90s. Coming across this...
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CAST A SHADOW
A while back I was rummaging throw some big, blue tuffy(s), looking for a tiny Japanese teapot and I came across this pot which immediately brought me back to Cleveland by way of Akron, Ohio. I cleared...
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LATE AFTERNOON
Some while back I put up a short video of one of my Oribe katakuchi in use with four Oribe mini-wan bourbon cups. Though not restricted to the use of bourbon, here are the same four cups just hanging...
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WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU II
I first salt fired quite a long while ago and have always had a soft spot for salt fired pots, in fact before I even made pots I was in love with the early salt and wood fired pottery for 19th century...
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THREE MOVES LATER
So this slipware cider jug has a short backstory that goes back over two decades, 2001 to be precise. One year we were gifted this Ray Finch Winchcombe cider jug by Dan Shutt, a very good friend and...
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EoD
Full disclosure, this was one of those end of day, what are you thinking pots, there is only one and more than likely there will only ever be one. I remember that it was later afternoon and I was...
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IRON FOREST
I wonder if John Heywood included this Renaissance proverb in his anthology (1546) if he saw into the future, seeing this mounted tile ala his contemporary Nostradamus. The proverb I was referencing is...
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SHELFIE*
This is a quick “shelfie”* I took for the Japanese studio pottery group over on Face Book yesterday. In this picture there is a large Shigaraki tsubo by Kohyama Yasuhisa, carved wood Kannon figure, a...
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DUSTED AND REVISITED
Okay, full disclosure, this is a bowl I have posted previously but recently rephotographed it once it was thoroughly dusted and clean. This teabowl is one of my saffron yellow over Hagi glazed bowls...
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SAKE-WAN
On the whole, over the years I have not found many “raku” pieces that I have felt compelled to own if you exclude the various pieces at the Raku Museum and other similar venues. However, for some...
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SHOWING OFF
I am pretty sure the name Tabei Kenji is not exactly a household name in the West but for some while now I have encountered a number of his pots and to be honest each one has its own charm, each being...
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MORE BLACK & WHITE
I can’t remember posting up any of this trailed glaze work before, so if I had, well, here it is again. The teabowl was thrown out of a small batch sandy whiter stoneware, glazed in a thin coat of a...
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COLLECTOR'S NIGHTMARE?
I realize it will likely sound like I am just droning on again about how differently pots can look from illustration to illustration or in person but I imagine this being the bane of many a collector's...
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BURUGURE
I have to admit, this covered jar was nearly impossible for me to photograph accurately. Thrown out of stoneware with black and then combed white slip, the base glaze was my Oribe and over that went...
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RECIPRICOL
Recently a friend sent me three wonderful books as a gift, one of them was a large folio on Kawai Kanjiro and the binding is all handmade Japanese paper. Refusing payment, even for the postage I...
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TSURUKUBI
My understanding is that this vase and another that I had here were bought from an auction house in Japan a number of years ago, a gourd vase and this crane's neck (tsurukubi) vase, one Iga and this...
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EoD REVISITED
I put up a bowl that I made as a spur of the moment, end of day kind of project and it occurred to me I never put it up finished. Illustrated is a simple porcelain v-bowl with chattered black slip and...
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YAKISHIME SHIGARAKI
Well fired yakishime Shigaraki chawan by Yoshisuji Keiji. This somewhat simple chawan, appearing almost as it came off the wheel has a wide array of glaze effects from a dry, dark ash to a coating of...
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I SEE WHERE YOU ARE GOING
I think as you look at this very early Shino mizusashi by Tamaoki Yasuo, it is rather easy to think to yourself, I see where you are going based on this pot and his work of the past five decades. I am...
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SAFE BET
Since I have wrapped up my recent orders, today was the day that I decided to take some time and make a few stoneware teabowls for myself. They are a bit time consuming as I deal with each one from...
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A BIT OF EVERYTHING
I am sure that I am repetitive in my use of descriptions for a great number of wood fired pots but despite that fact, I think I choose my words somewhat carefully and with an eye on what I am actually...
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
This wonderful kohiki faceted vase is a blast from the past, both my past and the potter’s past as well. Dating from the 1990s, this Korean Joseon influenced kohiki vase is a classic example of the...
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