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Aiiro Shino Manaitazara (藍色志野俎板皿)

This is a Mino ware plate which Sakai-san has created.

The length of the horizontal side is 50 centimenters.
The dish of weight is more than 3.0 kilograms.
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Aiiro Shino (藍色志野)
The technique called nezumi-shino.
It's one kind of Mino-yaki.
He got a hint from that.
Applying cobalt-blue slip between glaze and clay.
It reaches to a gentle and elegant pattern.

Kairagi (梅皮花)
Pattern -
Cracks like shark's skin like the picture above.
It has occured to shrinkage of glaze after being fired in a kiln.
It's also called kannyu in Japanese.
That's anything but broken, certailny available.
Sakai-san wants users to see the tension that the pattern brings.