Item NK048

Tamba-yaki
Green Tea Cup Set

(3pc. & signed box)

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Tamba-yaki is a style of high-fired, unglazed pottery originating more than 800 years ago in a remote and mountainous region west of Kyoto in Hyogo prefecture.  During the Edo era (1600-1868), Tamba tea bowls were used extensively by tea ceremony practitioners who appreciated their simple, austere beauty.  Because Tamba-yaki is unadorned and free of decorative elements, its beauty derives solely from the character of the clay, also known as its "flavor", and how kiln dynamics are rendered upon it.

This 3-piece set of green tea cups by Nagai Ken is wood fired in the Tamba-yaki tradition.  The intense heat inside the noborigama climbing kiln produces warm gradations of rust red to dark brown and small pebbles where feldspar crystals have burst through.  Swirling embers of red pine fuse with the surface of the clay and produce a natural glaze which is rough yet pleasing to the touch.  A wonderful display of the kind of dynamic kiln effects that only wood-fired pottery can exhibit.

For small gatherings of like-minded tea lovers.

See Nagai Ken's Osaka Exhibition for more works from his 2010 collection.

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