The recentry article about Arita
Bizen is at Echizen Town, Fukui Prefecture. The Pottery of Bizen is mostly fired at lower temperatures. The Pottery of Bizen often has the warmth of the clay.
The recentry article about Bizen
Bizen pottery! One of the six remaining kilns of medieval Japan.
備前焼きは、日本六古窯の1つで、日本の古墳時代の須恵器(すえき)の製法がもとになり、平安時代からはじまったと言われています。
Bizen pottery is made in おかやま prefecture(west side of Japan) in Japan.
Bizen pottery is famous stoneware in Japan. Bizen is one of the six remaining kilns of medieval Japan.
現在の岡山県で作られています。
It usually made from Non-porous clay. It is unglazed pottery. We can enjoy clay’s natural taste of clay. Surface colors and patters by flames and ashes is characteristic.
備前焼は、通常釉薬をかけません。約2週間前後1200度以上の高温で焼きます。高温で焼くため強度が強くなっています。
Bizen pottery is popular in tea ceremony in medieval Japan.Tea celemony prefer nature and natural taste. Bizen yaki is fit to Japanese wabi-sabi sprit -quiet simplicity and subtle taste.
備前焼は桃山時代に茶の湯で人気になりました。茶道では、釉薬をかけない土の表情が味わえる自然の風合いが好まれました。
It is mostly fired at hight temperatures for ten to forteen days. So it is durable. Toyo Kaneshige(1896-1967)is most famous artist at Bizen pottery.
昭和になると金重陶陽が、桃山時代を手本に芸術性の高い作品を生み出し人気が高まる。陶陽は重要無形文化財、人間国宝に認定され、その後も弟子たちが人間国宝に次々と認定され、備前焼きの人気が不動のものとなりました。
I think Bizen pottery suits bright
color flower and sweets. It is also fit to natural furniture.
備前焼きは、暗めの自然の土を感じさせる色なので、色鮮やかなお花などを生けると、花を引き立ててくれます‼︎
The recentry article about Mashiko
I went to visit Eki noriko's porcelains exhibition in Keio Department Store, Shinjuku, TOKYO
I bought Eki noriko's porcelains. Eki noriko lives Mashiko-machi Haga-gun, Tochigi, Japan.
The pottery's that I bought coler is like beautiful sea's blue.
The recentry article about Hagi
This magnet tools are made by金子 司さん. He is potter in Hagi(萩). The pattern of pottery made by using dropper. The color clay is dropped by dropper.
萩焼の金子司さんのきのこのマグネットです。わたしはあまりおしゃれにコーディネートできていませんが(笑)、展示会場ではもっといろいろな色やデザインがあり、とても美しかったです。金子さんは、たまたま知り合いのお兄さまで日本橋での個展にお邪魔しました。アパレルブランドとコラボレーションしたり、美術館でインスタレーションをしています。アート性の高くおしゃれな作品です。東京ドームでのテーブルウエア展の萩焼のコーナーでも拝見しました(^^)
About Hagi pottery
The pottery shop that his potterys are on sale
The recentry article about Echizen
Hiroshi Teshigahara is the 3rd Ikebana Sogestu School head master and acclaimed filmmaker*. As the son of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of Ikebana Sogetsu School, Hiroshi Teshigahara became the 3th head master.
Hiroshi Teshigahara built Sogetsu Pottery Kiln in Echizen Town of Nyu-gun, Fukui Prefecture.
The pottery in Echizen is mostly fired at higher temperatures. The pottery in Echizen often has the warmth of the clay. Hiroshi Teshigahara pottery often took on distorted shapes. I felt his pottery the warmth of the clay from distorted shapes even if glaze pottery.
*Hiroshi Teshigahara has another well-known face as an award-winning filmmaker. Adaption film of Kobo Abe’s novel with the same title, “Woman in the Dunes” won numerous awards. Hiroshi passed away in 2001. He introduced Japanese traditional culture – ikebana, tea ceremony and pottery in the world.
The recentry article about Kutani
I visited to view cherry blossom in a beautiful gerden at hotel chinzanso in tokyo.
It had Eisui Nogami's Kutaniware exhibision.
Eisui Nogami's Kutaniwares are brilliant and elegant.
お花見で訪れた江戸川橋の椿山荘。
野上映翆さんの九谷焼の展示をしていました!
華やかで、上品な作品でした。
椿山荘の荘厳な雰囲気、広大な庭園のグリーンと調和していました。