EVERYDAY

Illustrated is a kama-hen Shino kabin by Mizuno Takuzo made back in the late 1980s. The honesty and directness of the form, surface and intent of this pot really appeals to me, there is nothing flashy, Mizuno threw a simple, everyday traditional form, glazed it in his "regular" Shino glaze and then put it in the kiln and fired it. In doing all of these simple and ordinary tasks that potters do every day and relying on his years of experience, he handed over the reins to the kiln, the fire and a select choice of wood to complete the painting and narrative of the pot and that is what you see here. The beauty of a pot of this type is that it is simple, an accumulation of everything going right and moving a simple vase from the everyday to wanting to see it and communicating with it each and every day, you can't really ask for too much more.