Irabo Pots

These are all brushed on the bottom, dipped at the top with Hamada's Irabo glaze.

Hamada's Irabo
Wood Ash 4
Amakusa (Arita porcelain Stone) 1.5
Odo/Ocher 2

You can see the Mashiko Kaki liner in this one.

This is over Ko-shigaraki Hosome Clay

Yohen Pot Bottoms

All my unglazed pots are polished. These yohen pots fired in the firebox need the most work.

1. First, I use a a stone (half a sharpening stone Sicarbide) Mostly on the foot, but for any big stuff on the pot
2. Then I use coarser then fine sandpaper.
   
3. then 3M green scrubbie wet.
4. then a sheepskin buffer on my mixing drill

I learned this method during my apprenticeship at Shimaoka's. Traditionally, they used ricestraw instead of 3M pads, but they switched to the 3M pads. Also, they don't use a buffer, but instead, an appentice can polish a yohen pot for a full day with a cotton cloth. The buffer is my apprentice and it gets the job done in about 15 minutes.

Yohen/Firebox Tea Bowl

Mogusa/Mashiko clay, iron decoration, shino glaze.

Firebox Tea Bowls

Shigaraki clay, faceting and inlay. Thin shino glaze

Shigaraki, hakame, Shino Glaze

Shigaraki, Faceting, Inlay, unglazed

Ash glaze with glaze trailed Kaki, Nuka and Reeve green

John Reeve's Synthetic Kaki:
OM4 11.5
EPK 11.5
Kona F4 31.4
Bone Ash .5
Talc 5.2
Wollastonite 6.5
Silica 27.0
Spanish Iron Oxide 6.4
TiO2 .5
MnO2 .2

Kaki, Resist, Jomon inlay and Reeve Green in Window

Tenmoku, glaze trailed kaki, nuka and Reeve Green.

Shino Plate With Grass Decoration

Shigaraki Tsubo with Fish Inlayed

The Shigaraki Clay has some Mashiko red clay added to it.
The inlay always cracks a little bit on the unglazed shigaraki clay body.

Fish as a symbol is related to my Zen name, Dairin

Bottom View

Stamps Closeup