QUARTER SPEED

I used this tokkuri back in 2018 as my Happy New Years post and a Youtube video slideshow and decided after all this time to pull it out and make a short slo-motion video of the pot to help fill in the gaps using a better camera and crisper image. Made by Kojima Kenji this Iga tokkuri is a perfect size and is as pleasing in its function as it is with the aesthetics of the piece. As is quite readily apparent, this tokkuri was fired on its belly and the ash has melted and run to the center turning gravity on its head a bit while standing upright and the real bonus is the wonderful bidoro drip stuck on the lip looking like some promethean jeweler has embedded an emerald into the moth of the pot. I hope the video gives a fuller sense of the size volume and dimension of the Iga tokkuri and that the quarter speed of the video gives ample time to see the landscape as it truly is in person.