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Japanese-made pottery
The title is Kohanyu Koro (紅斑釉香炉).

This is an incense burner created by Takemura Shigeo.

・Japanese Haiyu (ash glaze)
Ash glaze is an old ceramic technique that creates natural glass-like glazes from wood ash.
The feature is simple and gentle colors with flowing expression by using differents type of plant burnt ash.
Kiln transformation like the subtle changes peculiar to natural ash glaze occur, producing passionate colors.
There may be areas where the glaze is thickly accumulated, which is konwn as "vidro".

Takemura-san is a ceramist whose expert is making haiyu ceramic.
The celamic glaze is made of grapevine's branches he trimmed in the field.
Spotted pink color patterns are seen on the surface.