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.
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