{"product_id":"takeda-toshio-mashiko-guinomi-ash-glaze-with-turquoise-pool-japanese-sake-cup-artist-box","title":"Takeda Toshio | Mashiko Guinomi | Ash Glaze with Turquoise Pool | Japanese Sake Cup Artist Box","description":"A Mashiko guinomi by Takeda Toshio — volcanic gray-brown wood-ash glaze with a vivid turquoise-blue pooled accent, deeply textured body, and an uncompromising roughness that announces its provenance. Mashiko ware sake cup Japan, Takeda Toshio guinomi signed, wood-ash glaze guinomi box, Japanese turquoise glaze pottery, handmade sake cup artist, wabi-sabi ceramic guinomi, Mashiko folk pottery collector, Japanese stoneware sake vessel with artist box speak to a single object shaped by fire and earth in equal measure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Basic Details ]\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Takeda Toshio (武田敏男)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Mashiko folk ware tradition, natural wood-ash glaze with turquoise copper accent\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: H 7 cm × W 5.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Original signed wood box (tomobako)\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Very good; artist introduction card has minor wear\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Cultural \u0026amp; Artistic Insight ]\u003cbr\u003eMashiko is among the most important folk-ceramic towns in Japan — made internationally known by Hamada Shoji, the Living National Treasure who worked there for decades. The Mashiko tradition values the evidence of making: throwing rings on the body, rough foot rings, glaze that pools and runs. Takeda Toshio works in this spirit without quotation — his surfaces have an elemental quality that places them squarely in the mingei (folk art) tradition while carrying the distinct mark of a specific hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Deep-Dive Commentary ]\u003cbr\u003eThe glaze surface of this guinomi is a landscape. The dominant tone is a speckled gray-brown produced by iron in the clay body reacting with the ash glaze; within this field, a pool of copper turquoise has gathered in a low point of the wall — the result of the piece's exact position in the kiln during firing. These color events are entirely unrepeatable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sculptural quality of the piece is evident at the foot: the throwing marks are deeply visible, the foot ring is cut with deliberate irregularity, and the clay shows its iron-rich Mashiko nature in terracotta tones where the glaze thins or terminates. This is a vessel that communicates its weight and substance before it is lifted.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA guinomi of this character — artist-signed, Mashiko-tradition, with a bold glaze presence — is suited to slow sake rituals, to single-user daily contemplation, or to display alongside other folk-ceramic works. The turquoise pool is the piece's visual center of gravity and its most remembered feature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【作家物 日本語説明】\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 基本情報 ]\u003cbr\u003e• 作者：武田敏男\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：益子焼・自然灰釉・銅青釉\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：栃木県益子\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：高さ7cm、幅5.5cm\u003cbr\u003e• 箱：共箱\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好。作家紹介の紙にやや傷みあり。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 文化的背景 ]\u003cbr\u003e益子焼は濱田庄司によって世界的に知られた民藝の産地。武田敏男は益子の土と自然釉の伝統を受け継ぎながら、独自の表情を持つぐい呑を制作している。本作の青緑色の溜まりは窯変による自然の産物であり、一点のみの景色。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 鑑賞ポイント ]\u003cbr\u003e灰色・茶褐色の自然灰釉に鮮やかな銅青が一点のように湛まる景色は、見るたびに新たな発見をもたらす。ずっしりとした手取りと轆轤目、削り出した高台の荒々しさが益子の土味を伝えている。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ SHIPPING \u0026amp; PACKAGING ]\u003cbr\u003e• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days\u003cbr\u003e• Carrier: Japan Post EMS \/ UPS (with tracking)\u003cbr\u003e• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61625034572146,"sku":"260227_a_2151","price":649.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m15228483076_1.jpg?v=1772239669","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/takeda-toshio-mashiko-guinomi-ash-glaze-with-turquoise-pool-japanese-sake-cup-artist-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}