MODELING SESSION

It has been quite a while since I put up a post on this Tsukigata Nahiko Oni-Shino hisago hanaire and I was lucky enough to get a few minutes to photograph the piece recently and here is one of those photos from the modeling session. As you can see in this view, this vase has almost everything you would look for from Oni-Shino right down to a wonderful coat of natural ash from the wood firing. The mouth and shoulder have a nice crust of wet, brown ash which gives way to a cascade of green coating the pot exposing areas of pure white Shino and iron perculating up to the surface. Though this is not a particularly large pot, its presence and  traditional form make it a larger than life piece in person where all the components of form, glaze, ash and fire meld together to make what I consider quintessential Oni-Shino from the potter who pioneered this style and technique now a staple of the modern Mino tradition.

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