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i picked up a few guinomi (sake cups) from my recent trip to Japan and wanted to make a thread about the lovely ceramics of Kyotō.

please show us your collections


i'll start with this piece by KIMURA Morinobu (木村盛伸) [born 1932]:







weight: 90g
capacity: 73mL

really intricate action going on in the glaze that's hard to fully appreciate without bright light

Morinobu [b. 1932] is the second oldest of three famous Kyoto ceramicist brothers.
his brothers are Morikazu (木村盛和) [b. 1921] and Moriyasu (木村盛康) [b. 1935].

next up is a green Oribe glaze mentori (織部面取) cup by his son, KIMURA Noritada (木村宜正) [born 1968]:









weight: 129g
capacity: 100mL

father and son cups

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Sun Nov 05, 2017 5:09 am

next up is a green Oribe glaze cup by his son, KIMURA Noritada (木村宜正) [born 1968]:

weight: 129g
capacity: 100mL

father and son cups

Beautiful cups. Generational collections are so special, one teaching the next, sometimes with big stylistic shifts, sometimes not. These two cups look pretty different; one with ‘oil spot’ crystals on the surface using more of a Tenmoku tea bowl shape, the other a thicker slashed sculptural wabi-sabi Oribe aesthetic (Raku ware inspired?). Although, it looks like they both share intense rich glazing techniques.

I always assumed Oribe ware was from a region, but now I see it is named after a 16th century style created by wabi tea master Furuta Oribe (1544-1615) that spread throughout Japan.

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Sun Nov 05, 2017 4:49 am

......i'll start with this piece by KIMURA Morinobu (木村盛伸) [born 1932]:

Just saw this, reminded me of your cup, except it’s a picture of the universe. http://uk.businessinsider.com/whole-uni ... &r=US&IR=T

where can i get a cup like that
i could hold the universe in my hand...


here's a tenmoku cup by YOSHINORI Izumi (和泉良法) [born 1947]:





weight: 77g
capacity: 73mL

Wow wow wow, the way the glazing streaks stops short of the center, allowing for oil spotting in center, and that red translucent orbit on outside whattttt. Yeah, I’d say you’ve got the world in your hand.

yeah absolutely no clue what's going on with that red ring. struggling to think of where that came from, but it's awesome

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Mon Nov 06, 2017 1:31 pm

yeah absolutely no clue what's going on with that red ring. struggling to think of where that came from, but it's awesome

I wonder if iron oxide in glazing interacts with tea, or does glaze seal that?

idk about the tenmoku spots. i can feel a change in texture when i run my fingernail over them -- the spots feel a bit rough. i'm not about to soak the cup in acid to find out

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Mon Nov 06, 2017 10:50 am

where can i get a cup like that
i could hold the universe in my hand...


here's a tenmoku cup by YOSHINORI Izumi (和泉良法) [born 1947]:





weight: 77g
capacity: 73mL

Thank you for the introducing me to the world of Tenmoku cup . This is one gorgeous cup. Very tempted!

Each of those gorgeous cups includes its own world to contemplate, so lovely. The green-blue transitions on the oribe are marvelous, so well suited to the rugged carving of the cup that gives lots of places for the glaze to pool and turn into azure watery swirls.

And that second tenmoku / oilspot cup.....is that a little guinomi treasure?

I'm quite a fan of kyoyaki, but then again i'm in love with almost any kind of ceramic. Surprisingly the only thing that kind of turns me off is mashikoyaki (edit: i'm going to have to take this back as i've been enchanted by 2 chawan by Takeichi Kawai).

Here are a few of my pieces, by the same artist. Not nearly as flashy as the pieces already shown though

The following are a tea bowl and a guinomi by Masahiro Wakao. Personally i love both items, clearly from the same hand. He has been working in Kyoto and also did some work in a Mino fashion.

Apologies for the auction photo's, my telephone is quite alright as far as the camera goes, but the over-crowding issue in my tea room is not. Finding both pieces might take too long:)