OBJECT

This pot was acquired on our very first trip to Japan. Early that year, 1990, we met Kohyama Yasuhisa at the home of Michael Cunningham who back them was the curator of Japanese art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. At that time we were invited by Kohyama-san to come to his studio should we get to Japan and we did just that about six months later. Having toured Shigaraki the previous week with the help of the Honiwa family, we made another journey to Shigaraki where we were met by Nakamoto Nakae and spent the better part of an afternoon visiting with Kohyama-san and seeing his studio, kiln and workshop. We left with a kogo and guinomi as gifts as well as a tokkuri and this object all well packed in my backpack. 

Though only about 6" tall this "object" was coil built out of coarse Shigaraki clay with a rough opening and several pattened Kohyama facets on either side. The surface of the piece has a wonderful, pure light green surface of all natural ash that doesn't mask the clay surface allowing all the faceting marks and feldspar pieces to help articulate this small, intimate form. Though this was not one of Kohyama Yasuhisa's large KAZE pots at the very least we had a wonderful experience visiting and still managed to walk away with four very pleasing and cherished pots that were easy to carry and in my opinion are much larger than their actual size would ever convey.