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Philip, where did you get all these appealing Aiko Watanabe potteries ? On the Net ? From a specialized gallery ? Directly from the potter ? I guess that living in Japan facilitates the purchase of such items. What are your experiments in this field, as you are living in (near ?) Tokyo ?

Let's stay in Iga wares. Here are some pics of a small guinomi by Furutani Kazuya and a link to the potter website.

Bernard D 

http://furutani-kazuya.com/

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Hello Bernard

 

Nice guinomi mate! I like that one.

 

Going round Izu visiting onsen and kilns as perhaps Chris used to do when he was living there is fun. As you know anagama are only fired twice or thrice a year and I never managed to fit in with Aiko chan's or any other Iga or Shigaraki kiln's schedule.

 

I did visit a Bizen place where they will send it on once fired after a week or so and made a tokkuri, subsequently the cause of much hilarity. It was so heavy I used to hide it in my mates backpacks before a day on the hills. It went up Takaosan twice and Oyama once before the inevitable happened.

 

Here's a chawan I also made along with a sake cup by the resident potter, both Bizen in style. You roll clay into long cylinders and build them up before trying to shape in an interesting way, easier said than done as you can see. I wasn't allowed to attempt a koudai (or to sit with the other students).

 

I'll pm you some links after I remember their names- been a while since my last purchase.

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The post 58 guinomi arrived then? That's got quite a lot to it, hasn't it!

 

Here's some morning tea without ceremony pics to compliment Henry's. Bowl is by Keinyu (1817-1902). His stamp shown below is the one on the underside and is the earliest version. He had four throughout his long lifetime.

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Thanks for posting the Tanba guinomi, Bernard. I hadn't come across this potter before.

 

 

Here's a link to an American potter living here. I like the guinomi and some other pieces. his blog is full of info about his experiments with ash/glaze mixes, and often illustrates the different results from the pot in question's position inside the anagama.

 

http://karatsupots.com/wordpress/2014/11/e-madara-karatsu-yunomiguinomi.html

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Thank you Philip for introducing the tomobako.

 

Here is a link to a short video entitled "Tomobako, a brief history of using wooden boxes in Japanese ceramics" :

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5E1qlndDI0

 

...and some pics of an illustrated tomobako for an Oribe tokkuri (11.5 X 8cm) by Fukami Fuminori, a potter who is also a cartoonist.

 

Bernard D.

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I hope no one minds my resurrecting this pottery thread. It's been a while since I've posted here and surely there ought to be many beautiful new acquisitions owners would be willing to share.

For my part I have made no new purchases in the interim. However this cup came into my keeping recently, not Japanese but from a place called Wang Kum Karm 20 to 30 k south of Chiangmai.

The characteristic blue green glaze from this area is achieved from bark ash from a local tree mixed with celadon clay from Lamphun.made for use by ordinary people not export and around 200 years before Chiangmai Old Kingdom.

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Wanted to bring this one back from the dead just for kicks as the original bowl in this thread is now with me. It's traveled quite a bit to get here!

 

Thanks Philip for plucking this from wherever you happened to find it. A wonderful piece with some serious age that I'm honored to look after.

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