A charred Ash Glazed Mizusashi water container by Kumano Kurouemon enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Glaze is crisp but grows quite liquid as it drips down the molten form. On the side in bold strokes is written "Sonomamani", or "Just as it is".
A ceramic madman, oil painter and recluse, Kuroemon is as eccentric as his pottery predicts...

Large, saffron, iron yellow covered jar with pierced ring knob with a banded, kushime decoration of slip under the glaze.

Stoneware, slips and glazes

13" x 9"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Lg. tsubo, jar with wide flared lip glazed in medieval green and temmoku glazes over a tataki, paddled grid design around the shoulder

Stoneware and glazes

10.25" X 8.25"

A stunning ash-glazed tokkuri by Living National Treasure Shimaoka Tatsuzo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The body has been imprinted with rope designs, a trademark of Tatsuzo’s works, and covered in plethora of Yohen kiln effects.
Size, D 14.6 cm H 11.2 cm
Condition, Excellent
Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1919-2007) attended the Tokyo Industrial School Ceramics department before being inducted into the army...

Large Oribe style covered jar with kushime slip decoration and ring knob lid.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13" x 7"

Ancient Iga pottery works had been made for a few decades since last Momoyama period from early Edo period. They were fired over 1250 degrees Celsius for 10 days and repeated 3 times and more with no glaze, they has natural glaze that is consist of melted ashes, burnt deposits and scarlet by fire. They are well known as dynamic style and loved by many tea ceremony master like as famous Oribe Furuta...

A large organic Kurinuki Mizusashi in deep rich lavender glaze with ash charring by Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 10 x 9-1/2 x 8 inches (25 x 24 x 20 cm) and in fine condition, dating circa 1995...

Temmoku glazed cap jar with haiyu accents in the stamped decorations. There are two small areas on the foot ring where the glaze ran just a bit, see pictures

Stoneware and glazes

11.5" x 6.75

Tall covered jar with thick combed slip decoration under my gosu style Ao+glaze.

Stoneware, slip and glazes

13" x 5.6"

Volumous temmoku covered jar with three rings around the circumference of the piece with impressed stamp decoration. Picture #5 shows the actual color and quality of the glaze very well

Stoneware and glaze

10.5" X 8.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Robust covered cap jar in a deep temmoku glaze with a band of my medieval green over a kushime combed slip decoration

Stoneware, slip and glazes

11.25" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

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Contemporary white porcelain jar by Lee Yong-soon (b.1957, Korea), with his unique interpretation for the ancient jars of the Joseon dynasty, approx. D 17 x H 17cm (6.69 x 6.69in)...

Like most Shigaraki-wares, this piece has a somewhat primal feeling to it, as though it belongs to a previous geological era in time. Rivulets of vitrified green, grey, and yellow ash stand against a background gradient of soft to intense ochres of the clay body. The intense firing process of this type of pottery for days in an anagama kiln results in a beautiful ashen glaze with a warm, soft, yet vibrant glow when set in the light...

Wonderful porcelain tsubo with exquisitely painted sparrow and foliage across the surface with vivid watercolor like effects calling to mind a scene right out of early autumn. The detail of the painting is rather intricate and obviously owes its inspiration to many of the Meiji era painters of which Watanabe Seitei (1851-1918) immediately springs to mind...

Rich rivulets of stunning green crystallize on the surface of this tokkuri sake-bottle by important Mino artist Hayashi Kotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The bottle is roughly 6 inches (15.5 cm) tall and in excellent condition.
Kotaro was born in Gifu prefecture, and graduated the prefectural ceramic facility...

I cannot help be see the incense stick burns in a Buddhist altar cloth when I look at this Shino Chaire by Wakao Toshisada which comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box.  Inevitably as more sticks of incense are added to a koro, some will break and fall onto the altar cloth, smoldering as they disappear into smoke, leaving only a fleeting scent and shadow-like scar in the drapery.  If one has ever been deep into the darkness of a temple, you may know the quiet feeling of contemplation...

Medieval green glazed cap jar with impressed stamp designs around the lobed body

Stoneware and glazes

7.75" X 6.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Green ash has poured in a torrent around the form, huge eyelets create bulge from the surface on one side, evidence of how it rested on its side in the kiln. Full of the world today, contemporary, breathing, alive...