{"product_id":"p6457","title":"Bizen sake bottle","description":"This Bizen sake bottle is by the master craftsman Mitsuru Isezaki, who loved Bizen ware and made significant contributions to the Bizen region.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nTrue to the style of Mitsuru Isezaki, who believed the beauty of Bizen lies in the quality of the clay and insisted on using high-quality rice field clay, this piece appears very simple at first glance, but upon closer inspection, it reveals a rich, viscous, and exquisite clay texture. Its lustrous, uniquely reddish earth quality has a charm that seems to melt before your eyes.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThis clay texture is truly the essence of Bizen that Master Isezaki himself was devoted to, and the complex, overlapping colors of the earth change infinitely with exposure to moisture and light.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe broadly flared body is finished with extreme care, following the style of ancient Bizen, and has been meticulously crafted with fine spatula marks throughout, as if polishing a gemstone.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom the rim down to the shoulder, \"goma\" (ash glaze) has gently settled like powdered snow, forming a very fine, dry-textured layer of yellow ash, which contrasts with the wet-looking \"sangiri\" (reduction firing) effect around the middle and base of the body.\n\nSigned wooden box (shiho-san)\u003cbr\u003e\nRim 3.8cm × Body diameter 9.1cm × Body diameter 8.9cm × Height 14.8cm Capacity 450cc\n\nMitsuru Isezaki was born in 1934 as the eldest son of Intangible Cultural Property holder Yozan Isezaki. He learned pottery techniques from his father from a young age and majored in sculpture at the Okayama University Special Art Course.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAs an authentic practitioner of tea ceramics, he pursued the aesthetics, clay quality, and firing techniques of the Momoyama period.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nDepending on the piece, he chose between using a climbing kiln and a medieval-style anagama kiln, refusing to use electric or gas kilns and insisting on firing with split pine wood.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe became a full member of the Japan Kōgei Association in 1964 and received the Kaneshige Toyo Award in 1974.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe received the Sanyo Shimbun Cultural Merit Award in 1994 and the 15th Tanabe Museum of Art Grand Prize in 1998.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn March of that same year, he was certified as a holder of an Okayama Prefectural Important Intangible Cultural Property.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHe passed away in August 2011 at the age of 77.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAwards: Kaneshige Toyo Award, Okayama Prefecture Cultural Encouragement Award, Sanyo Shimbun Award, Okayama Nichinichi Shimbun Art and Culture Merit Award, Grand Prize at the Tea Ceremony Modeling Exhibition, and many others \/ Invited artist to the Prefectural Exhibition","brand":"伊勢崎 満","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46618053181537,"sku":"6457","price":45000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0654\/9916\/8865\/files\/6457.jpg?v=1790231546","url":"https:\/\/www.tourakuen.jp\/en\/products\/p6457","provider":"川口陶楽苑","version":"1.0","type":"link"}