FULLNESS

Glazed and wood fired, what really draws me to this Tamba tokkuri is the fullness of the piece, the captured volume that creates a taunt form, ready to burst or perhaps just be used spilling all of its contents. Made to be used, the surface of this tokkuri is a delightful collage of creamy, running glaze over an ash glaze with areas of iron while punctuated with stone and feldspar emerging from the clay to add further accents the pot. At its core this is a simple tokkuri, skillfully thrown with a purposeful base and mouth capping the structure, centuries in the designing though clearly of a more modern age this is a pot full of movement an in the moment. In all respects Nishibata Tadashi has taken what would seem to be an everyday pot and stretched its use, definition and aesthetics into an amalgamation of old and new, simple and complex and most assuredly the familiar into the distinctive vision of a potter building on the Tamba tradition who creating uncommon works along the way.