Bizen Pottery ,Bizen ware, Firing, Bizen ceramic Artist Kimihiko BUYO english

Fuel for this heating is limited to Japanese red pine.
I use 2000pieces of Japanese red pines.
The unbaked potteries are placed in the kiln and for the duration of ten days and ten nights,are subjected to very intensive heat, temperature reaching over thirteen hundred degrees Centigrade.

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kamanonaka.jpg in the kilnyorukamataki.jpgFiring , ten days and tennights


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Taking the potteries out of the kiln
We cool down potteries in the kiln, slowly for about ten days,
thereafter we open the kiln, take potteries out of the kiln.

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We take the works out of the kiln very carefully.The clay and firing combine to produce various types of coloring and surface characteristingcs.


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