This Bizen-yaki chawan (matcha bowl) has a dark brown clay body decorated with the hidasuki (緋襷/火襷) pattern. This traditional decoration is created when the potter wraps rice straw around a piece before placing it into the kiln, where the alkalines in the straw react with iron in the clay body to produce these striking scarlet burn marks.
This chawan is stamped 友敬 (Yuukei) which is one of the marks of Kimura Pottery (木村興楽園 - Kimura Tourakuen) a Bizen-yaki kiln that has been making pottery for 16 generations since 1675. The stamp comes from their traditional name Chojuro Yuukei (長十郎友敬)
Bizen-yaki (備前焼) is a type of Japanese pottery that traditionally comes from Bizen province, now part of Okayama prefecture, Japan. The site of one of Japan’s Six Ancient Kilns, pottery has been made in Bizen since at least the 14th century.
Fired at high temperature for a long time (as long as 14 days) in wood-burning kilns, Bizen ware is known for its earthen colours and lack of traditional glaze. Because of the clay’s high rate of shrinkage, it is unsuitable for glazing. Instead, the designs found on Bizen ware come from kiln effects and include traces of molten ash resembling glaze and markings resulting from wood-burning kiln firing.
Dimensions:
12.7cm (5in) - width
8.9cm (3.5in) - height
400ml - capacity
Condition: Excellent
This vintage Japanese item ships from Thailand
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