A round cup in pale, almost unmarked cream clay, wrapped in crisp lines of flame orange. These are hidasuki — 'fire cords' — left where rice straw was tied around the piece before firing: one ribbon curls from the handle across the shoulder like a wave, another cuts diagonally across the far side, and the grooved handle is banded in orange where the straw was wound around it. Inside, a single small flame-shaped mark rests in the bowl.
Unglazed Bizen stoneware, wood-fired in one continuous firing near Bizen, Okayama (GPS 34.7456°N, 134.1894°E). Its colour and markings are kiln transformation (yōhen) — the record of earth and flame in a single moment, not a pattern anyone chose. One of a kind, shaped by human hands, and impossible to reproduce. Traceable to the kiln that made it.
Dimensions
Capacity: 200 ml
Height: 73 mm
Width: 120 mm (including handle)
Mouth: 76 mm
Weight: 210 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
