Bizen tea bowl

This Bizen tea bowl is by Yoshiteru Koriki, a popular young ceramic artist and a former apprentice of the master Sozan Kaneshige. The tea bowl features impeccable scenery, with one side displaying ash-covered kiln transformation (hai-kaburi yohen), the other side showing moss-green matte sesame glaze (kase-goma), and a rich scarlet earth tone. The vibrant scenery is expertly harmonized with a simple, unaffected form, demonstrating a superb level of skill worthy of a successor to the Sozan philosophy. Inside the bowl, a stunning kiln transformation glows like a sunset slowly sinking beyond the sea, with a circular red "nuke" (fire-scarred gap) appearing to dye the surface of the water. Signed wooden box (shiho-san)
Diameter 12.1cm x Diameter 11.4cm x Height 7.5cm Yoshiteru Koriki was born in Ako City, Hyogo Prefecture. Influenced by his father, who was a lover of pottery, he aspired to pursue a career in ceramics. After graduating from high school, he studied pottery techniques under the master Sozan Kaneshige and his son Yuho Kaneshige starting in 1989. After seven years of training, he built a climbing kiln in Shizutani, Bizen City, and became independent in 1996, successfully firing his first kiln the following year. He held his first solo exhibition in Tokyo in 2000 and has held annual solo exhibitions ever since. In 1999, his work was selected for the "Exhibition of Tea Sweets Vessels You Want to Use," and in 2002, it was selected for the "Exhibition of Tea Ceremony Forms" for the first time.