A small, egg-shaped vase made to hang on a wall. Near the top, a shallow hollow is pierced with a cluster of holes — one larger opening for a stem and smaller ones around it — so a single flower, a sprig of grass or a few twigs can be arranged in more than one way.
The pale sand clay is swept with soft flushes of persimmon-orange hidasuki — 'fire cords' — where rice straw lay against it in the kiln, with a single fine line of flame running down from the opening like a stem. It hangs from a brass ring on a short, hand-bound cord set into the back.
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
Height: 124 mm
Width: 89 mm
Main opening: 10 mm
Capacity: 200 ml
Weight: 300 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
