Translation help needed!

[Dresden]

[TIM]

Would you show us the pot please?

[gingkoseto]

Yeah picture of the pot please! From the paper work I am imagining a beautiful pot

I don't know Japanese but from some characters I am imagining a yixing pot imported to Japan or a Japanese studio adopting yixing style. Curious about the pot I am!

[Dresden]

[Chip]

Interesting ... or could it be a Chinese manufactured Kyusu?

Still, looks like a Japanese made one and quite nice but different from any I have seen in several respects.

What does the screen look like? That could tell a lot about the pot including where it was made. Chinese made Kyusu often have a tell tale screen.

[Dresden]

[Chip]

Thanks, looks like a Japanese ball screen which is common on this type of Kyusu when made in Japan.

Chinese screens tend to be not so perfectly made ... but ya never know.

If I was a betting man, I would still say it was made in Japan.

[JBaymore]

It says "Tokoname" so that's Japanese. And "Shiyudei".

http://www.tvlesson.com/video/37329_jap ... kyusu.html

Hopefully Robert Fornell will chime in here and translate it fully for you. I speak a fair bit, but my reading skills are not good.

best,

................john

[MarshalN]

This doesn't really say much that's meaningful -- it's basically about how this is a Tokoname pot, made from unglazed red clay, fashioned by hand and fired in a really hot kiln, etc. Then the lower half talks about the history of Tokoname and how it was a Japanese attempt to imitate Chinese Yixing, devised during mid 19th century with the help of a Chinese guy, Jin Shiheng, and how now Tokoname ware is internationally known, etc etc.

[JBaymore]

This doesn't really say much that's meaningful -- it's basically about how this is a Tokoname pot, made from unglazed red clay, fashioned by hand and fired in a really hot kiln, etc. Then the lower half talks about the history of Tokoname and how it was a Japanese attempt to imitate Chinese Yixing, devised during mid 19th century with the help of a Chinese guy, Jin Shiheng, and how now Tokoname ware is internationally known, etc etc.

Thanks for chiming in, Marsahll. So basically...... "from the Tokoname central marketing department".

best,

................john

[MarshalN]

More or less. At least it's pretty.

[Chip]

... but it does appear glazed, contrary to what was translated?

Tokoname pot, made from unglazed red clay

[chicagopotter]

... but it does appear glazed, contrary to what was translated?

Tokoname pot, made from unglazed red clay

I dunno. Looks highly burnished but not necessarily glazed.