Bizen-yaki pouring vessel

This is a Bizen katakuchi (spouted bowl) by Takashi Soga, who challenges the beauty of antiquity by recreating the same environment in which Old Bizen pottery was fired. This piece was fired using a primitive kiln based solely on his own empirical rules, without the use of any machinery such as electric potter's wheels or thermometers. It features a distinctive "keshiki" (landscape); the black "tasuki" (cord impression) over the red body creates a magnificent color when wetted during use. The fine-grained, matte texture, which is very pleasant to the touch, is characteristic of Soga-sensei’s passion for recreating Old Bizen. Paper box
Diameter 11.8cm × 11.5cm × Height 4.8cm Takashi Soga was born in Tokyo in 1984. He studied under Jun Isezaki in 2009 and built his own kiln in Kugui, Bizen City, in 2012. He began his independent pottery career in 2013.