Through a slow firing and cooling process an immense number of small pinholes appear on the resulting white pottery a style representative of early japanese white ceramics.
Japanese shino ceramics.
Shino yaki is a kind of mino yaki.
During momoyama period in the later half of the 16th century japanese potters developed japan s first white glaze called shino with a very unusual surface structure and colour response.
In the kinds of mino yaki the tea utensils of shino have long been popular with tea masters especially.
Combined with loosely thrown pots and spontaneous deccorations this kind of ware perfectly suited the wabi sabi aesthetics of the ruling zen buddhist tea masters of that era.
A very brief history of shino.
My proposal was to replicate japanese shino clays and glazes using local materials.
It is identified by thick white glazes red scorch marks and a texture of small holes.
These pots were developed as the result of a grant that i received in 2004 from the north carolina arts council.
Arakawa toyozo 1894 1985 the great japanese potter from the mino area near nagoya and hajime kato developed the first modern shino glaze by studying momoyama shino pots.
It is a type of japanese pottery traditionally from mino province today a part of gifu prefecture.
These pots were fired in a special gas kiln modeled after those used in japan see kilns.
Like many types of japanese pottery bowls and dishes are common.
Mino yaki is pottery made in mino area japan.
Shino ware is made from the local clay of mino mogusatsuchi and a thick layer of feldspathic glaze chousekiyuu.
The term also refers to japanese pottery made with the shino glaze see shino yaki.
Condensed from shino and oribe ceramics by ryoichi fujioka.
Shino glaze 志野釉 shino uwagusuri is a generic term for a family of pottery glazes they tend to range in color from milky white to a light orange sometimes with charcoal grey spotting known as carbon trap which is the trapping of carbon in the glaze during the firing process.