This cup is covered yellow glaze by ashes and green glaze by oxide copper, amazing color. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgo8DbZbxnw Size: 6.8cm(D)5.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Brilliant green "Oribe glaze" sake cup. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OfaOxZKfkw Size: 7.0cm(D) 5.0cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Sadamitsu Sugimoto recently has completed new raku technique not to use lead for glaze, so he can make a black raku sake cup. It's seemed just like a miniature of black raku chawan. YouTube movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noTNWuglDHI Size: 7.7cm(D) 5.5cm(H) Accessary: wooden box signed by artist

Vivid yellow streaked with glassy Oribe green glaze highlights the sculpted middle of this exquisite covered jar by important artist Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Mizusashi. It is entirely sculptural, with a refinement of glaze only this artist can create. Spectacular is all that comes to mind when viewing this groundbreaking artists work. The piece is 7 inches (18 cm) diameter, 6 inches (16 cm) tall and in perfect condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b...

Takiguchi Kiheiji (b. 1937) Momoyama Style Aka Oribe Chawan.
Of irregular Kutsugata shape with unglazed foot ring.
The mark of the potter is carved on the bottom.

Takiguchi Kiheiji
Trained under the master of Mino ware Juemon Kato and became independent in 1965.
Also, after studying at Shinroku Tsuji pottery studio in Kyoto, he built a kiln in Ogaya, Mino. Moved to the U.S...

Aesthetically perfect in imperfection, this Ido chawan made by Korean potter Seon Gil Seo (b. 1910).

Ido chawan, also known as Ido tea bowl or Ido-style tea bowl, is a type of ceramic tea bowl used in the Japanese tea ceremony. It is named after the Ido kilns, which were located in the Mino region of Japan during the Momoyama period (late 16th century)...

Kato Takahiko 加藤隆彦 (b...

A beautiful pure white porcelain tea cups by Niisato Akio enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Small "windows"like a firefly, the expression of the vessel changes under lights at each moment.
Size, Left D 7.9 cm H 5.2 cm (Sold)
Size, Right D 8.9 cm H 4.1 cm (Sold)
Condition, Excellent
Akio was born in Chiba in 1977 and has been active as a ceramic artist since finishing his studies at Tajimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center in 2001...

Marbled clay in vivid colors blends on this large jar by Matsui Koyo, enclosed in the original signed wooden box, exhibited at a solo exhibition in Mitsukoshi Department Store: and is featured in the catalog image number 21 catalog included. This is not to be missed!
Size, D 31.1 cm H 28.2 cm
Condition, Excellent
Matsui was born in 1962 son of LNT Matsui Kosei...

A spectacular work of charred dark clay by legendary potter Kakurezaki Ryuichi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kuro Chaki. The angular form rises from a triad of block feet, the front awash in a molten ash, tendrils of which wrap around like many fingers. It is breathtaking, and I am already jealous of the lucky soul who will get to keep it...

Matte colors in olive and silver coat the fiddle head fronds sprouting from this clump of clay studded with mysterious orbs by Masatomo Toi from his germination series of ceramic sculptures. The treatment of the rising horns is unusual in this piece, ordinarily more direct and threatening, these appear to be shy. The sculpture is 39 cm (15-1/2 inches) tall, 16.5 cm (6-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition...

Two platinum spikes erupt from the black glazed surface of this Kurinuki vase hollowed out from a black of black clay by Masatomo Toi, the first Kurinuki vase he has created (we think he is on to something). It is 21 cm tall, 25 x 23 cm (10 x 9 inches including the spikes. It comes with a signed wooden placard, directly from the artist.
Masatomo Toi was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1992, and graduated the Design course at the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility in 2019...

Three gilded thorns shatter the matte white surface of this large vase by Masatomo Toi, a striking combination of ideas. It is from his Dilemma series, the only piece in matte finish. It is 20 cm (8 inches) diameter and in excellent condition.
Masatomo Toi was born in Aichi Prefecture in 1992, and graduated the Design course at the Tajimi Ceramics Research Facility in 2019. Since he has been developing his series of “Thorny” vessels and objects...

Scrafitto dots surround a pool of crackled glass deeply impressed into the ovoid form of this ko-tsubo by Yagi Kazuo enclosed in a wooden box signed by his son Yagi Akira. White slip appears haphazardly slapped on the body as with a wide brush, creating a vigorous dynamic, combined with the pointilized circle and abstract form, there is a tension which draws one into the belly of the work, certainly reflecting the best this important artist had to offer...

A stellar tea bowl covered in rich Oribe green by Tsukamoto Haruhiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Chawan.
Size, D 13.1 cm H 9.1 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tsukamoto Haruhiko was born in Toki city, Gifu, in the heart of ceramic country in 1959, and raised among the kilns of the Mino region...

A playful sculpture which challenges the viewers perception by Hayashi Yasuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Sakuhin (work). It is 12.5 x 9 x 12.5 cm and in perfect condition. According to a description of a similar work in the collection of the Met: Hayashi’s series of black and gray coil-built trompe l’oeil “boxes,” a group that was inspired by his experience flying without lights at night as a kamikaze pilot... this work presents new ways of looking at three-...

A lovely lavender-tinged gray vase swept with brush strokes like fleeting snow in the Utsutsukawa-yaki tradition by Yoshioka Gagyu enclosed in the original singed wooden box titled Shirasagi Hanaire (White Egret Vase). Two birds stand against the cold on a long barren branch tinged with silver. Truly exquisite. The vase is 19.5 cm (just less than 8 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Gagyu’s first exhibited piece at the age of 20 in 1955 took the governors prize at the Nagasaki ...

A beautiful bamboo shaped vessel of pale gray glaze by Takahashi Samon enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Konabiki Hanaire. It is 28 cm (11 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Takahashi Samon (b. 1948) first studied with Kato Kobei V and Living National Treasure Kato Takuo. He then entered the Gifu Prefectural Ceramic Institute to study kiln making before going to the Kamakura kiln of Kitaoji Rosanjin for further study. He established his own kiln in 1977. Unaffiliat...