Bizen black rice bowl

This Bizen black rice bowl is the work of Masao Akiya, an artist who trained under Living National Treasure Jun Isezaki and creates works brimming with unique originality amidst a new spirit. It is a piece that combines the innovative sensibility cultivated under Jun Isezaki with the artist's own desire, as a ceramics enthusiast, to pursue ease of use. While aiming for a novel black rice bowl unlike any seen before, he has deliberately avoided making the cold black color the main feature, instead prioritizing warmth through the use of hidasuki (fire-cord) and goma (ash glaze) patterns to ensure practicality. Created using the "kabuse-yaki" (covered firing) technique, the sharp white background makes the vivid hidasuki markings stand out brilliantly. Paper box
Diameter 12.6cm x 12.5cm x Height 6.3cm Masao Akiya was born in Saitama in 1968. He studied under Living National Treasure Jun Isezaki starting in 1998, and after ten years of training, he built his own kiln and became independent in Bizen in 2008. He held his first kiln opening in 2009. His work has been selected for the Tanabe Museum of Art’s "Tea Ceremony Modeling Exhibition" and the Japan Kōgei Association Chugoku Branch Exhibition, and he has received awards such as the Prefectural Exhibition Award and the Encouragement Award at the Okayama Prefectural Art Exhibition.