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Traditional Glazes
Historically, those glazes reached the highest point during  the Southern
Sung and Northern Sung Dynasties in China(960~1234AD),then gradually declined and eventually disappeared without successors.
In recent years, in Japan, those glazing techniques have been studied and
found for modern textures and colors.
Those colors are purple, cinnabar (red), blue-green (like blue eyed), added on
the indigo-blue and blue-white, obtained by coppers mixed with a various other ores, recognized as a type of copper glazes.
Sky indigo-blue jar
天藍壷
Sky indigo-blue jar
115mm diameter
215mm high
year 2000
Iron glaze varied(Tetu yu-hen) incense burner
鉄窯変香炉
Iron glaze variant(Tetu yu-hen)
incense burner
110mm diameter
225mm high
year 2002
Sky indigo-blue tea bowl
天藍茶碗
Sky indigo-blue
tea bowl
125mm diameter
86mm high
year 2000
Soba kessho natume (buck wheat crystalline glaze, tea container)
蕎麦結晶茶入
Soba kessho natume
(buck wheat crystalline glaze, tea container)
70mm diameter
77mm high
year 1999