Apr 24, 2016

Taste of Spring in Kizeto Warisansho Bowl

Firefly squid with Nanohana (Chinese colza) in Kizeto Warisansho.


Originally, Kizeto is a type of pottery that was presumablly produced around mid-late 1500's (between late Muromachi and early Momoyama era) in Seto region. After centuries of disappearance, modern potters started to make Renaissance of it, by refering fragments of the original pottaries found at some relic sites in  Seto. "Ki" means yellow in Japanese. "Zeto" is the transformed use of the word "Seto".

Warisansho is a type of bowl, used to serve small dish. "Wari" means broken or cracked, and  "Sansho" is  Japense Pepper in English. The bowl looks like a fruit of the pepper being cracked. For this perticular bowl, diameter from top is 12cm and height is 8cm approxiately.


 

    

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