A lampshade in the shape of a ripe kaki — the Japanese persimmon, the fruit of late autumn. Soft ridges divide its body into segments, and at the top a small clay stem rises from a four-leafed calyx, itself pierced with tiny holes.
The walls are cut through by hand in circles, dotted trails, triangles and leaf shapes. Lit from within, it glows amber and throws long rays of light and shadow across the table around it. The kiln fired the top a warm persimmon red, fading through smoke to a deep iron-grey at the base, frosted with silvery ash.
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: 120 mm
Width: 80 mm
Weight: 200 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
