Kojima Shinsuke Hikidashiguro Sake Cup — Hand-Formed Pulled Black, Exposed Clay, Signed Box

A hikidashiguro sake cup (guinomi) by Kojima Shinsuke (小嶋伸介). Pulled from the kiln at peak heat and cooled in the open air — this is the ancient technique that produces hikidashiguro's signature carbon-black surface. The hand-formed walls carry horizontal coil marks, the silhouette yielding to pressure at multiple points. The lower edge is raw clay, unglazed, where the fire could not reach. Signed wood box included.

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【 DETAILS 】
• Form: Sake cup (guinomi / sakazuki)
• Glaze: Hikidashiguro (引出黒) — kiln-pulled carbon black
• Dimensions: Height approx. 6 cm, Outer diameter approx. 6.5 cm
• Provenance: Kojima Shinsuke (小嶋伸介)
• Condition: Good condition, characteristic raw clay at base
• Includes: Original signed tomobako (wooden box)

【 CULTURAL CONTEXT 】
Hikidashiguro (引出黒) — literally "pulled-out black" — is one of the most demanding techniques in Japanese ceramics. The vessel is removed from the kiln with iron tongs at the height of the firing, while still glowing, and allowed to cool in open air. The thermal shock locks carbon into the glaze surface, creating a depth and irregularity impossible to replicate by any other means. Each piece is unrepeatable. Kojima Shinsuke's work brings this ancient discipline to the intimate scale of the sake cup — the result is a vessel that carries the memory of fire in its every surface.

【 DEEPER NOTES 】
The horizontal coil marks that encircle the body were not smoothed away — they remain as evidence of the hand. The raw base is not an omission but a declaration: this object knows where it comes from. Paired with a cold, dry nihonshu, it transforms an ordinary evening.

【 日本語説明 】
引出黒のぐい呑。小嶋伸介作。窯から引き出した力強い黒、胴には轆轤目・手捻りの痕跡が残る。底部に土見せの景色。高さ約6cm・外径約6.5cm。共箱付き。

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