Imbe dish square type

Mitsuru Isezaki is one of the potters who inherited the Bizen ware redeveloped by Toyo Kanesige.
This dish was fired a few years before his death.
The design is very careful and simple, yet the quality is high, with just the right thickness and fine detail.
His pottery style is simple and undecorated to highlight the quality of the clay.
He fired his Hidasuki works in a Noborigama kiln rather than using an electric or gas kiln.
Although this dish is a Noborigama-fired Hidasuki piece, it features a bright scarlet color and beautiful white clay.
I feel that works fired in a Noborigama kiln like this are rare, as they often turn into charcoal gray clay with dark red Hidasuki markings.

He was born in Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture in 1934.
He was recognized as an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the prefecture in 1998.
He died in 2011.