The Bizen collection

Every piece here is the only one

Photographs show the actual item you will receive. Sizes are approximate because each vessel is thrown by hand and shrinks differently in the fire.

Sake Ware

Ao-Bizen Faceted Sake Flask

青備前面取徳利

A hand-faceted tokkuri drawn out of the reduction zone of the noborigama, where starved oxygen turns iron-rich Okayama clay a deep celestial blue.

USD 1,280View piece

Sake Ware

Ao-Bizen Starfield Guinomi

青備前星文ぐい呑

A cup the size of a palm, scattered with pale ash constellations across a reduced blue field.

USD 420View piece

Sake Ware

Blue-Drip Katakuchi Pouring Vessel

青備前片口

A lipped pouring bowl where molten ash has run down one wall in a frozen cascade of white over blue.

USD 960View piece

Tea Ware

Snow-Drip Chawan Tea Bowl

備前雪垂茶碗

A matcha bowl with a thick collar of vitrified ash falling like snowmelt over an iron-dark body.

USD 1,650View piece

Vases

Sangiri Storage Jar

備前桟切壺

A full-bodied tsubo banded in charcoal grey and ember brown where embers buried the jar mid-firing.

USD 2,400View piece

Tea Ware

Wood-Fired Kyusu Teapot

備前急須

A lidded side-handle teapot with a ceramic strainer cut by hand, one hole at a time.

USD 1,880View piece

Objets

Woven-Clay Handbag Objet

備前編組花入

Clay pressed into the texture of woven straw and lifted into a handled bag — a sculptural tour de force with a working flower well.

USD 3,600View piece

Objets

Sleeping Cat Okimono

備前眠猫置物

A hand-modelled cat curled in sleep, fired to the colour of toasted earth and boxed in paulownia.

USD 780View piece

Sake Ware

Ash-Grey Stemmed Cup

備前高坏

A takatsuki raised on a slender foot, its surface the dry grey of river stone.

USD 540View piece

Tea Ware

Ao-Bizen Handled Mug

青備前マグ

A generous everyday mug in reduction blue with a gold ash rim, thrown with a thumb rest.

USD 460View piece

Tea Ware

Ao-Bizen Cup & Saucer Set

青備前碗皿

A small handled cup with a matching kiln-warped saucer, both drawn from the same firing chamber.

USD 690View piece

Vases

Kiln-Split Ikebana Vase

備前割高台花入

A vase deliberately split down its face so the flame could enter and colour the vessel from within.

USD 1,420View piece

Objets

Carved Lantern Cup

備前透彫湯呑

A pierced double-wall cup that becomes a candle lantern when the tea is finished.

USD 620View piece

Tea Ware

Olive Ash Wide Bowl

備前灰被広鉢

A broad, shallow bowl pooled with olive-green vitrified ash across its floor.

USD 1,150View piece