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Taking every advantage of what little sun shows up here, illustrated is a small seiji guinomi made by Imaizumi Takeshi. All in all this is simple in exectution and design making use of an iron clay body and a kannyu style seiji glaze but of coars the simplicity part relies on years of experience and glaze testing to get to this point. The thrown round form has the lip pinched in three points to affect the symmetry and the confidently cut foot is surrounded by a thick opaque roll of pale blue glaze just hanging in space and presenting an ominous vision though perpetually frozen defying gravity and time. As I mentioned, this is a simple piece that balances form, manipulation, surface and firing and when all is added up, these details and subtleties tally a much more complex package then you were expecting.