Bizen Hidasuki Tea Bowl

This is a Bizen Hidasuki tea bowl by Yoshiteru Koriki, a popular young artist who was an apprentice to the master Sozan Kaneshige. While the style is very simple and serene, the piece reveals an intense passion hidden within its calmness, evident in the detailed adjustments made with a spatula around the waist and a rim that clearly reflects a process of repeated trial and error. The unique constriction at the shoulder maintains a polished silhouette while improving the fit when held, achieving a magnificent balance between utility and beauty. Through uncompromising clay preparation, it achieves a wonderful texture inherited from Sozan, resulting in not only beautiful coloration of the skin and scarlet cord markings but also a very gentle touch. Signed wooden box (shiho-san style)
Diameter 13.1cm × Diameter 12.9cm × Height 8.3cm Yoshiteru Koriki was born in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture. Influenced by his pottery-loving father, he aspired to pursue the path of ceramics. After graduating from high school, he studied pottery techniques under the master Sozan Kaneshige and his son Yuho Kaneshige starting in 1989. After seven years of training, he established his own climbing kiln in Shizutani, Bizen City, in 1996 and set out on his own, successfully firing his first kiln the following year. He held his first solo exhibition in Tokyo in 2000 and has held annual solo exhibitions ever since. In 1999, his work was selected for the "Exhibition of Northern Confectionery Vessels I Want to Use," and in 2002, he was selected for the "Exhibition of Tea Ceremony Forms" for the first time.