DESTINATION

How do you define simplicity? I think if you are to fall back on the old adage, a picture is worth a thousand words than it is quite possible that this is your picture. This is neither my photo or my pot, this was sent to me by a friend with an eye for just the right pot as is pretty clear in this detail shot of the kodai of a Hagi chawan by Miwa Kyuwa. I certainly will not say this foot is perfunctory but I will say that it has been stream lined to exclude anything other than the barest of necessities, a modest pedestal on which the bowl can securely rest with the aesthetic considerations that the foot compliments and matches with the bowl form and glaze. To this end this kodai checks off all the boxes and is exactly what is needed and expected from a bowl that is the epitome of simplicity and complexity at the very same time. I guess this is the destination after a lifetime of experience and making pots.