A small lampshade shaped like a round fruit, topped with a gently curving clay stem. Across its walls, cherry blossom petals — sakura — are cut through by hand, linked by winding trails of tiny dots, as if petals were drifting on a night breeze. Lit from within, every petal and dot glows warm gold against the dark clay.
The kiln fired the surface a soft charcoal-violet with faint throwing rings, touched with silvery ash low on one side.
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: 95 mm
Width: 75 mm
Weight: 200 g
Fragile by nature and packed for the journey. Ships worldwide from Japan.
