Primitive Shino tea bowl by an important Shino master, Yano Keisen (1870-1965), famous forto be chosen by Empress Michiko and having a collaboration with the calligraphy of Toyama Mitsuru (1855-1944),

Kato Kenji was born in Mino, the heart of ceramic country, in 1924. Following the horrors of the second world war, he studied Under Nakabayashi Kozuru and Kato Tokuro, as well as being quite involved in calligraphy circles. Kenji Katō 寛治 (kanji correct spelling) MINO

★ Genkuro kiln and Kato Takeshi ★

[Masakazu Yamada]Born in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture in 1951. In 1975, he was selected for the first time at the Tokai Traditional Crafts Exhibition. In 1981, he was selected for the first time at the China-Japan International Ceramic Art Exhibition. In 1982, won the first prize at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition. In 1983, he was selected for...

A spectacular Shino Chawan featuring clouds over the white by Japan Ceramic Society award (JCS) winner Tamaoki Yasuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box. The form is organic and flows like salt-foam on the tide. One side is indented, allowing the bowl to snuggle comfortably in your palm as you turn the bowl with one hand to drink. This...

Takashimaya Gallery, a major department store in Japan located in Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto and Nagoya. 心意気 (kokoroiki).It is a bowl with a cuteness that makes it look like the pink color is slowly appears. From the inscription "Iya: Kokoroiki", you can feel the joy of the author's pure pottery. It is a beautiful item unused!...

Winner of numerous awards and hailed as an Important Intangible Cultural Property of Tajimi City and Gifu Prefecture, both historical centers of Japanese pottery, his works epitomize the beauty of Shino. A high-temperature-fired style of pottery, it often has small nesting holes (suana) that tea ceremony aficionados adore. This characteristic,...

Nothing I can say can convey the rugged beauty locked up in Amazing tea bowl made by Shino well know potter Yamada Masakazu ,signed on the base and enclosed in the original signed and stamped wood box.Yamada was born in 1951,His traditional works in Shino Yaki tea bowl are phenomenal. Yamada exhibited and or been prized at the Nihondento Kogei...

(b.1927) studied with Kato Kageaki(1899-1972, Yasukage's grandfather) and then with LNT Tomimoto Kenkichi before establishing his kiln in 1961. In 2010 he was designated a Toki City(birthplace of Shino) Intangible Cultural Property for his Black Seto. From a young age, Takuzo Mizuno (b. 1927) apprenticed with several well-known potters including...