“Hagiyakiya x Multiply”

This “Hagiyakiya webshop” was started because I took an interest in Japanese ceramic pottery culture.
This Japanese pottery culture was growing up with Japanese Matcha Tea ceramony, call “Sado” culture.
Tea masters wanted excelent “Tea tools” for example Teabowl, Water container, and the potter has created more excelent tools for the demand.
They were always going to make better things, and also, the potter is proud to be a potter with like this culture.

We have been introduced you Hagi ware works as our pottery culture of hometown.
From now, we are intoroducing potter and their works to all over the world with Hagi works through the our homepage as an exhibition.
Before starting the exhibition, we are talking about Kilns and artists who are joining our special event.

 

Akihiko Watanabe in Atami Shizuoka prefecture.

I met Mr. Akihiko Watanabe who is pottery celadon in Atami in Shizuoka prefecture.
I happened to see him at the Robert Yellin Gallery in Kyoto, and then I had a chance to visit his work place.

 

I visited Atami for the first time ten years ago.
At that time there were few people than at present, but I was surprised by the number of people as soon as I got off Atami station. Mr. Akihiko Watanabe picked me up at the station and we went to his workshop.

 

Mr. Akihiko Watanabe is a very rare person who makes celadon with a wood kiln “Anagama”. “Anagama” is very old type of kiln made by digging a hole in the side of a hill.
For this reason, in order not to impair the elegance and beauty unique to celadon, put the work in “saya” like a tubular ceramic cover for preventing the ashes from woodfiring.
It seems that this sheath is also rare now and it is difficult to obtain those, he explained me that he is using carefully the sheath which is presently used.

 

It is hard to understand in those picture, the intrusion into the depth deeply and we can feel the fear of his works.
Mr. Akihiko Watanabe says that the beauty and interestingness of this intrusion that is created unevenly is a gift from woodfiring kiln, and it seems that he can’t make those beautiful works in a gas kiln.
More intriguingly, this intrusion seems to grow further as time goes by, as well as continuing to use, it seems that the beauty of work will increase even if just leaving it for several months as it is. Although I was actually showed the work that had been unused for several years since he did kiln-out, the deeply penetrated intrusion that appeared in his work spread like a crystal made his work beauty. It was truly surprisingly.

 

I also saw a woodfiring kiln. Even if the same blue magnetic glaze, the color of the work seems to be quite different depending on the placing area in the kiln, and it is unpredictable until the works are put out from the kiln.
“The fun of the woodfiring kiln is it. The gas kiln can calculate the top, but the firewood kiln can not calculate the top, so extremely rarely, works that are beyond my imagination may be created” says Mr. Akihiko Watanabe.

 

Mr. Akihiko Watanabe seems to had been very deeply friends with Hagi pottery artist Housei Udagawa who was deceased early and became legendary now as a talented potter. He talked me about Mr. Housei Utagawa’s humanity and the wonderfulness of his works a lot.

 

Mr. Akihiko Watanabe and his daughter Ms. Akane Sarashina who is a painter will be holding a parent-child exhibition in the near future in Tokyo. If you are convenient for it, please see the works directly.
We will also introduce the works of Mr. Akihiko Watanabe at the event of “Hakkakiya Multiply”, so please look forward to it.

 

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We really welcome Overseas order.

 

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