Firing in anagama, Shigaraki ware

Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
Kyoto, Japan

Without applying any glaze, the vessel was fired at high temperature in anagama to vitrify or harden it into stoneware (yakeshime dōki), the wood fuel having calcified.

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Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University

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