SNOW

I used this illustration of this wonderful Shimizu Uichi mizusashi a while back on my blog but given the current weather here, thought it rather apropos to use again. This time I am showing off the rear of the pot where a large kanji for the word snow is "painted" through the viscous white glaze right down to the dark, rich black iron glaze underneath. Though I can't see any black of our driveway pavement through the thick blanket of snow here, this pot reminded me of the current situation developing outside possibly with the glimmer of hope that like the surface of the mizusashi, perhaps the snow will begin to melt in the near future giving way to an actual driveway and even grass. One can hope.