A full, rounded lampshade shaped like a bottle, rising to a small rolled neck. Its walls are pierced by hand with countless holes gathered into star-like clusters, flower rosettes and long dotted trails, with incised lines flowing like rivers around the lower body. Lit from within, it becomes a map of a night sky — and a single point of light glows from the open neck at the top. Small arches are cut into the foot.
The kiln fired the clay in shifting tones of rust red, smoky violet and silver-grey, with a flare of flame running down one side and a golden bloom of ash (goma) across the shoulder.
Unglazed Bizen stoneware, wood-fired in one continuous firing near Bizen, Okayama (GPS 34.7456°N, 134.1894°E). Its colour and markings are kiln transformation (yōhen) — the record of earth and flame in a single moment, not a pattern anyone chose. One of a kind, shaped by human hands, and impossible to reproduce. Traceable to the kiln that made it.
Dimensions
Height: 150 mm
Width: 120 mm
Weight: 650 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
