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LeoFox wrote: ↑Fri Apr 02, 2021 9:21 pmThe exemplar reference for sado island mumyoi should be the work of Miura Jozan (三浦常山).
Background from different sites (some overlapping info):
https://www.gyokudou.com/en/mumyoiyaki-en/https://hojotea.com/item_e/mumyoi.htmMumyoi ware originated from Raku ware (a type of handshaped pottery fired at low temperatures) which Jinbei Ito made, using the Mumyoi clay produced in the tunnels of the Sado gold mine, in 1819. Later, in 1857, Tomitaro Ito began making Honyaki ware (a type of pottery fired at higher temperatures) using the Mumyoi clay.
Jozan Miura, the first generation of potters, strived to make the traditionally fragile Mumyoi ware as strong as the "orange red clay" and "purple clay" ware produced at the kilns in Yixing, China. He eventually succeeded in making the same type of high-fire pottery.
https://japanese-ceramics.com/mumyoi-wa ... %E7%84%BC/In 1819, a man named Ito Kanbei (伊藤甚平) started to use the by-product of gold mine to make Raku Ware (楽焼). In 1857, the pottery in Sado Island was further developed by Ito Tomitaro (伊藤富太郎). At that time, red clay was partly used. It was mixed with other clays to get a specific character of Raku Ware.
The red clay produced in Sado Island is called Mumyoi Yaki (無名異焼). A revolution in Mumyoi Yaki was made by the first generation of Miura Jozan (三浦常山). He studied the art of Yi Xing tea pot, and developed his own baking method using mumyoi red clay. There was only a handful of artists who specializes in Mumyoi Yaki, nevertheless, they have managed to achieve acclaim and recognition by obtaining two National Living Treasure (人间国宝) awards; the first award in the history of Mumyoi Yaki was given to Miura Koheiji ( 三浦小平二), son of the 3rd generation of Miura Jozan, while the second award was given to Ito Sekisui (伊藤赤水).Afterward, Miura Jozan (1836-1903) realized that Mumyoi produced from the Sado Mines has a very similar nature to Yixing clay. He doubled his efforts to change the usual Mumyoi ware, which was quite fragile, into strong pottery similar to the pottery created from the Yixing kiln in China, and he completed a piece of strong, high-temperature Mumyoi pottery. Tea tools in Mumyoi ware became popular among people who like green tea because they made tea delicious like Chinese Yixing ware.
According to a record, the famous shogunate retainer, Katsu Kaishu bought tea tools from Miura Jozan.
Pics:
This was initially misidentified as jozan ii
viewtopic.php?p=12520#p12520
From marshaln who also misidentified it:
http://www.marshaln.com/2011/02/yamada-jozan/