Looking
a bit like an old Korean rice bowl in form, this robust Ko-Iga style chawan was
made by veteran, renaissance potter, Kishimoto Kennin. Thoroughly entrenched in
the mountainous heart of Mino potter where Shino and Oribe are king, Kishimoto
has pioneered a rediscovery of Ko-Iga creating a wide array of pottery
including chadogu but not limited to those pieces alone. Besides the traditional
Iga pottery, he is also known for Iga-Oribe as well though it is his Iga pots
like this chawan that create a thread from past to present and stand out among
others working in the same tradition. The casual bowl shape of this chawan and
spontaneously cut kodai are a perfect canvas for woodfiring and the natural ash
that has settled and overtaken this pot are truly the marriage of potter, clay
and fire, of which there can be no doubts, Kishimoto Kennin is a master.
For a Wednesday, sometimes one thing has little or nothing to do with the other; an acoustic
cover of Coldplay's CLOCKS by Jeff Gunn;
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