Lee Love on tue 2 apr 02
Don't know if anybody went to look at my carbon trap Henko, but I put up two new
photos:
Second one is a test tile of the same shino above, but fired in gas reduction.
(We just opened the kiln today.) I glazed and "once fired" the Shino clay tile.
Looks like many "Japanese" shino glazes. The cracks might not be acceptable to
the "Safety Freaks" back home, but they love this effect here in Japan (If you
don't like these variations, you might as well be using plastic. ;^). ) It is
smooth where the clay is smooth, like on the inside of the bowl. I subbed
Japanese materials for a John Baymore shino that didn't require Spodumene or
Neph Syn. (John, can I share this recipe?) I want to try some more tests,
lowering or dropping all together, the soda ash, and maybe adding Terrayama clay
for some of the kaolin.
The 3rd photo is of a Kasama Sake pot I picked up in Kasama for $11.00.
Kasama is where the potters came from who started the potteries in Mashiko. It
has nices drips of Sage Green on the neck.
http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~ikiru/henko.html
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"The best pots for me are the pots that I like." --Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
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Mitsuru Cope on tue 2 apr 02
Deer Lee,
Your carbon trapped "Henko" bottles are absolutely wonderful. What does
Henko mean? Are they for sake?
Mitsuru
> Don't know if anybody went to look at my carbon trap Henko, but I put up two
> new
> photos:
>
> Second one is a test tile of the same shino above, but fired in gas reduction.
> (We just opened the kiln today.) I glazed and "once fired" the Shino clay
> tile.
> Looks like many "Japanese" shino glazes. The cracks might not be acceptable
> to
> the "Safety Freaks" back home, but they love this effect here in Japan (If you
> don't like these variations, you might as well be using plastic. ;^). ) It is
> smooth where the clay is smooth, like on the inside of the bowl. I subbed
> Japanese materials for a John Baymore shino that didn't require Spodumene or
> Neph Syn. (John, can I share this recipe?) I want to try some more tests,
> lowering or dropping all together, the soda ash, and maybe adding Terrayama
> clay
> for some of the kaolin.
>
> The 3rd photo is of a Kasama Sake pot I picked up in Kasama for $11.00.
> Kasama is where the potters came from who started the potteries in Mashiko.
> It
> has nices drips of Sage Green on the neck.
>
> http://www1.ocn.ne.jp/~ikiru/henko.html
>
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>
> "The best pots for me are the pots that I like." --Shoji Hamada (1894-1978)
> http://www.awanomachi-tcg.ed.jp/mashiko.html
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Lee Love on wed 3 apr 02
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitsuru Cope"
> Deer Lee,
> Your carbon trapped "Henko" bottles are absolutely wonderful. What does
> Henko mean? Are they for sake?
Thanks Mitsuru,
I always thought it meant "altered" because these types of bottles are
paddled. But I went to a Kanjiro Kawaii show in Kasama with a friend who is
fluent in Japanese, and we noticed that the mold made bottles were also
sometimes called henko. I think it actually means narrow in shape: wider
than deep.
Traditionally these types of bottles were for Sake. I use them as
vases. We always have fresh cut flowers in the house.
Lee in Mashiko
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne." - Chaucer -
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John Baymore on thu 4 apr 02
Second one is a test tile of the same shino above, but fired in gas
reduction.
(We just opened the kiln today.) I glazed and "once fired" the Shino cla=
y
tile.
Looks like many "Japanese" shino glazes. The cracks might not be
acceptable to
the "Safety Freaks" back home, but they love this effect here in Japan (I=
f
you
don't like these variations, you might as well be using plastic. ;^). ) =
It
is
smooth where the clay is smooth, like on the inside of the bowl. I subbe=
d
Japanese materials for a John Baymore shino that didn't require Spodumene=
or
Neph Syn. (John, can I share this recipe?)
Lee-san,
Honto ni !!!!! Are wa totemo ii desu, ne. The glaze test looks great in=
both firings. Glad it worked for you with the Nihon materials. It's sor=
t
of a weird "kick" for me to hear that you fired those tests in
Shimaoka-sensei's noborigama..... after my visitng sensei's studio back i=
n
96. I can kinda' "visualize the setting" a bit.
Yes..... feel free to post it. And if you would..... can you post the
equivalent Japanese/Mashiko material recipe too?
Did you just do a "feldspar for feldspar" type translation.... or did you=
convert oxides "moles for moles"?
de wa mata,
..............................john
John Baymore
River Bend Pottery
22 Riverbend Way
Wilton, NH 03086 USA
603-654-2752 (s)
800-900-1110 (s)
JohnBaymore.com
JBaymore@compuserve.com
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st
16-25, 2002"
Lee Love on fri 5 apr 02
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Baymore"
Yes..... feel free to post it. And if you would..... can you post the
equivalent Japanese/Mashiko material recipe too?
Did you just do a "feldspar for feldspar" type translation.... or did you
convert oxides "moles for moles"?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thanks John!
I just swapped Mashiko materials (all listed from the Tochigi Prefectual
Ceramics Institute) for your materials. I didn't have the specs on your
feldspar. I'll probably tweak it a bit after a few more tests.
I'll put up the information before the weekend is over.
Lee in Mashiko
"The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne." - Chaucer -
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| Lee Love ^/(o\| Practice before theory. |
| Ikiru@kami.com |\o)/v - Sotetsu Yanagi - |
`~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~'
"All weaves one fabric; all things give
Power unto all things to work and live." - Goethe -
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