{"product_id":"p5936","title":"Bizen Ware Mixed-Clay Sake Cup","description":"This is a newly fired Bizen mixed-clay sake cup by Tomoyuki Oiwa, who has made his long-awaited debut after learning pottery techniques under Ryuichi Kakurezaki.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis new work was fired in the fourth kiln firing since he built his custom-designed anagama kiln in Kamigori, Hyogo Prefecture.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nLike his mentor Ryuichi Kakurezaki, he has focused on scrap clay that would otherwise be discarded,\u003cbr\u003e\nreorganizing it into a single mass by pounding the pieces together in this ambitious work.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe piece offers a strange sense of inspiration, as if peering into the strata of the earth. As I gaze at the chaotic surface—where multicolored clays are marbled together—I feel that we, too, will eventually return to the earth, to be reorganized into another life by someone else’s hands.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe intense, swirling form, which teeters on the edge of flying apart, makes me envision Oiwa struggling with the clay; it must have been exceptionally difficult to throw on the wheel, given that the clays differ not only in color but also in hardness and texture.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n*There is a small chip on the foot as shown in photo 7, but it does not affect its use.\n\nSigned wooden box (shiho-san)\u003cbr\u003e\nDiameter 9.0cm x 7.8cm x Height 4.9cm\n\nTomoyuki Oiwa was born in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture in 1977.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe completed the Bizen Pottery Center program in 2004 and began his apprenticeship under Ryuichi Kakurezaki in 2005.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe established his own studio in Hyogo Prefecture in 2014.","brand":"大岩智之","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46618018218081,"sku":"5936","price":14300.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/9916\/8865\/files\/5936.jpg?v=1790231167","url":"https:\/\/www.tourakuen.jp\/en\/products\/p5936","provider":"川口陶楽苑","version":"1.0","type":"link"}