Iga ‘Landscapes’ of a Fujioka Shuhei Tsubo–New Book
A groundbreaking new book has been published entitled ‘Zen Landscapes Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics’ by Dr. Allen Weiss; a little about the book can be read here. For those interested in Japanese gardens-aesthetics related to ceramic will find this scholarly text very engaging. Here are some ‘landscape’ photos–called keshiki in Japanese–of a Fujioka Shuhei Iga tsubo-jar; of course the classic ‘mitsu-no-keshiki’ or ‘The Three Landscapes’ of Iga pottery being biidoro, hi-iro and koge. Biidoro is from Portuguese vidro (glass) and is a natural flowing, vitrified glaze which sometimes stops to form a globule called a tonbo no me (dragonfly’s eye). Hi-iro literally means “fire color,” and this is where the potter brings out the natural beauty of the clay (tsuchi aji) in sunset oranges or muted browns. The burned or scorched ash-toned areas on the pieces are termed koge.
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