AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware

  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware
  • AIIROSHINO TSUBO (Indigo Shino type Jar A) Mino ware

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Ceramic Feature

Aiiro Shino Tsubo (藍色志野壺)

This is a Mino ware jar which Sakai-san has created.
Sakai-san has been working to create original Shino-style apart from fixed notion.

It's important to stretch with a few quantity of clay while turning the potter's wheel.
He hopes people to know about this special coloring.
By creating a sense of tension, the shape matches the color.
That has turned into his own technique.

Its height is almost 40 centimenters.
Perfectly round shape.
The high level by throwing potter's wheel is shown to the work.
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Aiiro Shino (藍色志野)
The technique called nezumi-shino.
It's one kind of Mino-yaki.
He got a hint from that.
Applying cobalt-blue slip between glaze and clay.
It reaches to a gentle and elegant pattern.

Kairagi (梅皮花)
Pattern -
Cracks like shark's skin like the picture above.
It has occured to shrinkage of glaze after being fired in a kiln.
It's also called kannyu in Japanese.
That's anything but broken, certailny available.
Sakai-san wants users to see the tension that the pattern brings.

Size

Height : 39.0 cm
Diameter : 38.5 cm

Artist Introduction

SAKAI, Hiroshi

SAKAI, Hiroshi
(Mino artist)

Sakai-san has learned ceramic a lot under Kato Kozo who is the living national treasure, setoguro. He creates a new type of Shino-yaki in his own individuality.

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Price:
¥1,980,000 JPY