Black Raku Tea Bowl, yakinuki type, called KAISHI

The source of the name “KAISHI” refers to the phase from a classical Chinese poem. The piece is made by using a hand-forming technique, which is the traditional style of Raku ware. This is a thin, shoe-shaped tea bowl. The area of a belt-shaped line is coated with the thoroughly fused a vivid cobalt, a black glaze. It looks as if the water’s edge. From the mouth to the notched hip, a thickly coated green glaze gently flows in a straight line looks like a mirage of distant view on the sea. The area of trimmed foot is entirely coated with an ash glaze. This work is one of the “Day Voyage” series.