YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware

  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware
  • YOKOYU KORO (Incense Burner with Sunflower ash glaze) Kyoto ware

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Ceramic Feature

Yokoyu Koro (陽向釉香炉)

This is a Kyoto ware incense burner which Takemura-san has created.
He made the shape by throwing on the potter's wheel.
It is koro incense burner in Japanese tea ceremony.
A unique glaze is used as decoration, its ingredients contain ash of sunflower which he grew.
And it has turned to yellow color with painstaking work because it is required for exquisite temperature control.

Size

Height : 9.6 cm
Width : 13.8 cm

Artist Introduction

TAKEMURA, Shigeo

TAKEMURA, Shigeo
(Kyoto artist)

Takemura-san is a ceramicist who engages in creative activities in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto prefecture. It’s interesting that color changes depending on settings, temperature and a part of plants, though same glaze is used.

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Price:
￥110,000 JPY
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