As if it never cooled, this bottle by Kato Takahiro glows with the fire which forged it a rich orange with tendrils of flame whisping up the body, a superb work enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Aka-shino Tsubo enclosed in a lacquered Niju-bako double wood storage case...

Molten ash wraps its fingers around the elongated form of this Bizen Vase by Fujiwara Yu enclosed in the original signed wooden box.  The plasticity of the glaze as it creeps around the surface, over raw clay, mountains of ash and spatters of lighter encrustations is truly a sight to appreciate.  A masterpiece.  Even the base is beautifully covered in its own unique way, and every angle creates a new view. 
Size, D 14.1 cm   H 23.6  cm 
Condition, Excellent 
Fujiwara ...

A playful work with a dancing rim and lively colors like the yukata clad dancers at traditional Bon-Odori dance festivals of August by Tanimoto Kei enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Chawan.  In the glaze rising up are tendrils of smoke, like the wispy veils rising from burning Incense coils.  Inside is entirely coated in thin green ash.  A wonderful work. 
Size, D 13.2 cm H   cm 9.2 
Condition, Excellent 
Tanimoto Kei was born the son of Iga artist...

A delicately appealing Chawan by Ito Motoihiko decorated with a single flower enclosed in the original signed wooden box...

Here is a superb example of the work of this Living National Treasure,enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Yusai Tsubo.The colors sliding down and catching in different hues, white, black, purple, blue and green, likening the surface to a 3-dimmensional Hiroshi Senju waterfall.  The surface is a mirror, and it is a most prominent work...

I have long sought to offer the perfect piece by Kawase Shinobu, one that captures both his mastery of celadon glazing and his innovative symmetry of flowing lines and fluted points.  Finally it is here, and I look very much forward to sharing this with you all.  The silhouette is ethereal, harkening back to the clean elegant lines of Song pottery and the pirouetting lines of Alphonse Mucha and Art-nouveau.  The glaze lays perfectly mirror like on the body, like a green ocean without a breath...

Thick white glaze has crawled back, leaving exposed portions of rough clay on this shiro-yu Hagi Kakehana hanging vase by Living National Treasure Miwa Kyusetsu XI (Jusetsu) enclosed in the original signed wooden box complete with an exhibition pamphlet from Kintestsu Department Store advertising a similar work for more than 17,000 dollars . 
Size, D 11.2 cm   H 14.2  cm  
Condition, Excellent 
Kyusetsu was born the third son of Miwa Setsudo, and studied first with his B...

A large Kataguchi bowl by Living National Treasure Shimaoka Tatsuzo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shio-yu Zogan Jomon Kataguchi and including the original exhibition invitation From New Years 1977 upon which this piece is featured.  The body has been imprinted with rope designs, a trademark of Tatsuzo’s works, and covered in salt glaze, resulti9ng in a burnished blue, giving light to the heavy form. 
Size, D 21.7 cm   H 13.8  cm 
Condition, Excellent 

One of a kind! Stunning Kyo-yaki tea bowl in the style of Ninsei Nonomura with strong and vivid colors - made by legendary Nishimura Eiraku Zengoro XVII. It comes with its originally signed and sealed wooden box and is perfect condition.

The Nishimura/Eiraku family is part of the Senke Jissoku, 千家十職, the 10 families that make tea ware for the Senke school...

An outlandish image of bright autumn color decorates this set of sake flask and cup by Ito Motohiko enclosed in the original signed wooden boxes titled simply Tokkuri and Guinomi respectively.  Typical of this artists work, the vessels display a textured cloth surface called nunome, the raw clay decorated with bright large images of natural motifs.    
Size:Tokkuri, D 9.2 cm   H 13.2  cm 
Size:Guinomi, D 8.2 cm   H 4.2  cm
Condition, Excellent 
Ito Motohiko ...

An incredible bowl of spotted ink supplanted by a midnight blue rim by Kimura Moriyasu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled humbly Tenmoku-yu Chawan. It is 5 inches (12.5 cm) diameter, 3-1/2 inches (8.5 cm) tall with a perfectly formed foot and slightly in-curving bowl form perfect for winter tea. The colors are reminiscent of the Kujaku-yu developed by Matsuyama Gae, yet the application is very different.
Kimura Moriyasu (b...

Viscuous charred feldspar clouded with stormy color adorns this superb cascading bowl by Kumano Kuroemon enclosed in the original highly decorated signed wooden box titled Matsuzaka Shino Glaze Chawan.  Like the potter himself, this bowl is large and stable, seemingly welded to the floor by its own weight and presence.  Despite that the kodai foot is small and delicate, adding creating tension between form and the space around it.  A sublime example of this popular artist’s work. 
Si...

A very unusual vase by Hamada Shoji enclosed in a wooden box annotated by his son Hamada Shinsaku and titled Kaki-yu Ao-ryu kake Henko ( Persimmon-glaze with applied flowing blue).  Although the shape is certainly among this famous artist’s repertoire, the combination of rust colored reds and browns on black with Mediterranean blue-green is quite striking.  Like the sulfuric staining on the walls of an onsen, it seems to pour forth from the opening, however swirls into a cloud on the side, r...

Scrafitto dots surround a pool of crackled glass deeply impressed into the ovoid form of this ko-tsubo by Yagi Kazuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hakeme Hana Tsubo.  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...

Dashes of red, black and flashes of green decorated the scorred and scarred white glazed body of this magnificent Chawan by Yamada Kazu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Kaku-yu Oribe Chawan.  The form is slightly belted, to allow the bowl to settle comfortably into the palm.  The very traditional silhouette however has been paddled and graffiti structures scratched into the surface.  Over this has been applied an overall white glaze, with black and red ladled out on top of th...

Thick pale green covers the perfect white clay of this elongated form by Kato Tsubusa created with his New Zealand Calium and enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seihakuji Hanaire (White Celadon Vase).  A pearlescent drip runs down one side, beginning the formation of a pool at the foot. 
Size, D 12.2 cm H  22.2 cm  
Condition, Excellent 
Kato Tsubusa was born in the home of Shino, Tajimi city.  However after working some in pottery, he moved on to white ...

Here is a fine example of LNT Tokuda Yasokichi III covered in vivid colors ranging from white to black and with his coveted bule enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Tsubo and signed Yasokichi.Staring into this surface is like seeing the complexity of colors forming water ripples on an impressionist painting.  There is something very natural and unfiltered which captures the imagination.  
Size, W 13.6  cm   H 23.8  cm
Condition, Excellent 
Designated Livi...

White glaze parts like melting snow on the dark surface of boulders in the early spring on this lidded box by Miwa Kazuhiko enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled　Shiro-hagi no Shi (A poem in White Hagi).  The scene (keshiki) of the piece does evoke poetic feelings, bringing one out into the fields of the mountainous karst around the Hagi area, standing alone in a field dotted with stone and blanketed in snow, the natural textures of the earth revealing themselves in small patches ...