Wood-fired Mizusashi, Water container, by George Gledhil; Payette, ID. E-Shino (picture Shino) glaze. H.5.625"(14.25cm) x Dia.6.785"(17.5cm.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in his life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and encouraged him to produce Tea wares...

Blasted and dripping with ash, a spectacular Shigaraki Mizusashi by Tanimoto Yo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. A shell juts from raw rippled wood lid like it was sticking up from the ripples of sand on a beach. It is 21.5 cm (8-1/2 inches) tall 18.5 cm (7 inches) diameter and in fine condition. Born in 1958 the son of Iga potter Tanimoto Kosei, Yo was raised among the kilns and has always had his hands in clay...

New stunning Oribe works from Higashida Shigemasa, including, Tea Bowl ,Vases, Sake Cups ,Sake Bottles and Water Containers ,available for purchase...

A spectacular and voluminous Tsubo by one of the most important Japanese Artists Koyama Kiyoko enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It offers a variety of kiln affects to the viewer, Hai-kaburi, Hi-iro, Tombo no me and a drippy blast of green glass. The shape is very much in the style of the great age of Shigaraki pottery, with an everted rim trumpeting from a broad shoulder. This is one of those once in a lifetime pieces...

The deep sides of this striking vase are covered in shades of lustrous orange tinged feldspar by master craftsman Kato Yasukage XIV enclosed in the original wooden box titled Shino Hanaire and signed by the 14th Generation Yasukage followed by his seal. The coloring appears as if the vase is still held in the whispering grasp of the flame, a bright yellow-orange which appears almost liquid in places...

A dramatic work by Ikeda Shogo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Tsubo. If you get tired of looking at it, just turn the vase 30 degrees for an entirely new vantage. A vase which would be hard to grow tired of....

A very unusual Sake Set by Hamada Shoji enclosed in a wooden box annotated by his son Hamada Shinsaku and titled Namako-yu Shuki (Synallactida-glaze Sake Set). Although the shape is certainly among this famous artist’s repertoire, the combination of rust colored browns on black with Mediterranean blueis quite striking...

Lush wasp jar with my Ao glaze over hakeme slip with stinger style lid knob

Stoneware, slip and glazes

8.8" X 6.2"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Temmoku and haiyu glazed tea caddy, chaire with ceramic lid. There is flowing glaze all around the upper portion of the wasp waisted form with a beautiful green steak present on the face of the pot.

Stoneware and glazes

4.2" x 3.25"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Gourd form covered jar with hakeme slip decoration and my handprints in clear glaze with the Ao glaze overall

Stoneware, slip and glazes

10.75" X 6.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Thick ash covers the squat form of this exquisite traditionally shaped tsubo by Tsujimura Kai enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Uzukumaru. Green ash has poured in a torrent around the form, settling into glossy black around the base on one side and tingeing the rim with charcoal fingers. To one side huge crescent moon shaped kutsuki forms a rakish grin, inviting the viewer to join in the merriment...

Thick ash covers the squat form of this exquisite traditionally shaped tsubo by Sugimoto Sadamitsu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Tsubo. It is amorphic, clothed in such a thickness of ash and coal that it appears to have formed that way over a millennia. Like some cave formation millions of years old. It shows the true mastery of Sadamitsu over kiln placement and firing technique...

A playful Sake Set by Sawa Katsunori, each piece enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe Tokkuri and Oribe Guinomi respectively.  The capricious brush has worked over the various colors creating crosscurrents among the various themes which play off of each other .  The perfect compliment to the charms of a good bottle of sake. 
Size,The Tokkuri: is W 9,8  cm ( 3.9 inches)  H 16.0  cm ( 6.3 inches)  Size, Guinomi: is W 5.8  cm ( 2.3 inches)  H 5.2  cm ( 2.05 in...

Rozome style covered jar with the repeated resist "harmony" design. The green overglaze is very reminiscent of Japanese Fujina, as well as medieval galena glazes style glazes and is very rich in person and lead free.

This covered jar comes with two different styled lids, each one presenting an entirely unique view and perspective of the piece

Stoneware, slips and glazes

9.75" X 7.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe!

A profusion of color descends the granulated surface of this traditional form by legendary potter Nakagawa Jinenbo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Chosen Karatsu Mimitsuki Hana-ire.  The grandiose embellishment of color creates a sublime sense of tension between the dark glazed and color infusion.  Although very much in the Chosen Karatsu tradition, the execution is unequivocally contemporary. 
Size, W 14.8 cm ( 6 inches)  H 24.5  cm ( 9-1/2 inches) 
Conditi...

An exceptionally large work by one of the most important contemporary ceramic artists in Japan. Collected widely both here and abroad, a favorite of Daitoku temple in Kyoto who hold a number of his works. Pieces by this artist are held internationally by museums including: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Stockholm Museum of Art, and the Urasenke Chado Research Center, Miho Museum.

Trained in a Zen temple before becoming a potter, Tsujimura Shiro (b...

Bidoro rain down like a glass bead curtain over the terracotta clay of this Shigaraki Tsubo by Furutani Michio enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Uzukumaru Tsubo. This is a superb example of this important artists work, showing both his reverence for traditional form and the lengths he went ot reviving the traditions of wood fired kiln effects...

Mizusashi, Fresh Water Jar used in Chanoyu, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Wood fired with Shino Glaze, ca. 2009...

I cannot help be see the incense stick burns in a Buddhist altar cloth when I look at this Shino Chaire by Wakao Toshisada which comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box.  Inevitably as more sticks of incense are added to a koro, some will break and fall onto the altar cloth, smoldering as they disappear into smoke, leaving only a fleeting scent and shadow-like scar in the drapery.  If one has ever been deep into the darkness of a temple, you may know the quiet feeling of contemplation...

The edges burn in black on this masterpiece Bizen Tokkuri by Mori Togaku,comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Encrusted in blue glass and green ash on the neck. A museum quality with very an unusual firing from this living legend Bizen artists work.
Size, D 12.6 cm H 10.4 cm
Condition, Excellent
Mori Togaku was born in Inbe, in the heart of Bizen territory in 1937. Following graduation from Okayama University in 1957, he taught art for a short time before...

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 ...

Large, saffron, iron yellow covered jar with pierced ring knob with a banded, kushime decoration of slip under the glaze.

Stoneware, slips and glazes

13" x 9"

Functional, decorative and food safe

An iconic work by Shigaraki legend Furutani Michio enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Henko. This is the shape for which Michio is best known and superb example, showing both his reverence for traditional form and the lengths he went of reviving the traditions of wood fired kiln effects. A simply stunning work to fill out a collection with one of the most important Shigaraki potters.
Size, W 26.8 cm H 26.6 cm
Condition, Excellent
Furutani Mi...

This is a spectacular Tsubo by Tsujimura Shiro showing the master skill of this important artist.It comes enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Maru Tsubo. Green glass shizen-yu glaze,dark koge or burn marks with slashes of color over the red terracotta. The coloring pleasing on all sides. It is Zen!
Size, D 22.1 cm H 21.6 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tsujimura Shiro was born in Nara in 1947, and began his steps into the art world as an oil painter. While liv...

This piece was fired for 10 days with red pine firewood in Anagama along ancient style without artificial glaze, This small style of water container "mizusashi" has been liked in Japanese tea ceremony scene. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9CBtpPl7X8 Accessary: lacquered lid, wooden box signed by artist. Size: 12.7cm(D/mouth) 15.8cm(D/body) 14.5cm(H)

A beautiful assortment of colors and textures play across the dark red surface of this exquisite Chaire tea container by Living National Treasure Fujiwara Kei enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Bizen Chaire.
Size, D 6.7 cm H 11.4 cm
Condition, Excellent
Fujiwara Kei (1899-1983) was born in Bizen City, Okayama, he did not enter the ceramic world until he was already 40 years old. In his youth he studied art and literature in Tokyo. Intent upon becoming a no...

Mizusashi, Fresh Water Jar used in Chanoyu, by George Gledhill; Payette, ID. Wood fired with Shino Glaze interior. H. 4.875"(12.5cm) x Dia. 7.5"(19cm.) Mouth opening 4.5"(11.5cm.) Volume = 64oz (2,000cc.) There have been several influences to George Gledhill’s ceramic work. Buddhism has been a guiding force in life for many years, and George even visits local prisons to teach the Dharma to inmates. Through pottery and Buddhism, he was exposed to Tea practitioners who complimented his work and ...

Green ash has poured in a torrent around the form, huge eyelets create bulge from the surface on one side, evidence of how it rested on its side in the kiln. Full of the world today, contemporary, breathing, alive. It is a wonderful Sake Set by this young artist.
Size,Tokkuri: W 11.2 cm H 14.6 cm
Guinomi: W 6.8 cm H 5.8 cm
Condition, Excellent
Tsujimura Yui was born the first son of the legendary artist Tsujimura Shiro in 1975, and his illustrious fathers e...

Dohei Fujinoki is one of the most popular artist in contemporary KARATSU pottery scene. Initially he aimed a western painter and then,when he met an old KARATSU pottery piece he had been fascinated. He has studied at Karatsu and also MIno. And while, he has studied in tea ceremony. His repertoires are goods for tea ceremony, sake cup, and tableware for Japanese cuisine. This piece is a brand new work created with chosen karatsu glaze (black&white) trditional glaze in Karatsu. It would...

A charred Ash Glazed Mizusashi water container by Kumano Kurouemon enclosed in the original signed wooden box. Glaze is crisp but grows quite liquid as it drips down the molten form. On the side in bold strokes is written "Sonomamani", or "Just as it is".
A ceramic madman, oil painter and recluse, Kuroemon is as eccentric as his pottery predicts. Born in Fukui prefecture in 1955 Kuroemon was a painter from youth, he began his studies under Fujita Jurouemon in 1976, and moved to study al...

Hand carved terra cotta covered jar with "grasses" pattern on the body and lid

Terra Cotta, slip and glaze

7.75" X 7"

Functional, decorative and food safe

Ash Glazed Flower Vessel by Gomi Kenji enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Sai-doki Tsubo, (Colorful Clay Vase). On the bottom the clay is lively earth tones colors, the top is ash gray. The entire work is soft and matte, like an old charcoal sketch, exuding a very powerful “Wa” sense of harmony.
Size, D 28.2 cm H 26.8 cm
Condition, Excellent
Gomi kenji was born in 1978 in Nagano.He has been displayed at the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition,the Kikuchi B...

Ash flows through and fills the deeply crevassed surface of this closed bottle form by Furutani Hirofumi (Churoku II) enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Shizen-yu Kuchi Jime Yohen Hanaire. All one must do is turn it a few degrees to get a new aspect or a new point of contemplation. Shinshoku, blasted green, olive fingering, and charcoal black all studded with the famous Shiseki of Shigaraki. It is 18.5 cm (7-1/2 inches) diameter and in excellent condition, directly fro...

A Mizusashi Water Jar for use in the Japanese Tea Ceremony by Otani Shiro enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The artist has chosen to rely solely on the flavor of the clay, truly barren earth colored only with shadow and light resulting from the flame and kiln position. This beautifully showcases the nature of the distinct Shiseki filled Shigaraki clay. Top an austere black lacquered wooden lid like a pool of dark shadow. It is 26 cm (10-1/2inches) diameter, 13.5 cm (6 inches) high ...

Elegant Karatsu influenced bottle, vase or tokkuri glazed in temmoku and haiyu glazes with a very nice visual texture on the shoulder

Stoneware and glazes

9" X 4.5"

Functional, decorative and food safe

A seminal Karatsu fresh water container by master of that style Nakagawa Jinenbo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Chossen Karatsu Mizusashi. Raw earth is supplanted with rich iron into which flows curtains of black into which flows rivulets of blue. Two lug handles drape from the sides and it retains the original ceramic lid. It is 16.5 cm (6-1/2 inches) diameter, 17.5 cm 7 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Nakagawa Jinenbo (1953-2011) was always fascinated with K...