Although I do not own any Yamada's kyusu, I agree!Chip wrote:Yeah, I have been eying Konishi Yohei for years, but at half the price, Yamada has been indulgent enough.
Maybe one day, Chip ..
Although I do not own any Yamada's kyusu, I agree!Chip wrote:Yeah, I have been eying Konishi Yohei for years, but at half the price, Yamada has been indulgent enough.
Gorgeous, well that pot certainly wasn't available long, wonder what teachatter got that beautyChip wrote:OK, I'll play ... Yamada Sou mayake (wood fired). Might be the best mayake kyusu I have seen by Yamada. What do you think?
Spoken like a TeaChat lurker, now member.PEARL wrote:Gorgeous, well that pot certainly wasn't available long, wonder what teachatter got thatChip wrote:OK, I'll play ... Yamada Sou mayake (wood fired). Might be the best mayake kyusu I have seen by Yamada. What do you think?
Yeah, the ball shaped shudei with raised lid at 190 ml was a beauty too. That went first.Alex wrote:Wow that got snapped up! Anything around or under 200ml with his work seems to go in seconds. I'm actually surprised Toru doesn't stock more small pieces. Seems the larger the piece the longer its on his site. I guess it comes down to he has to take what he can get.
Thank you for the information!Drax wrote:Interesting, there's not a lot of information on "mayake." Toru says it means wood-fired. The kanji involved are 真焼(け). That first symbol means "reality" or "true." It's used in lots of things, but also colors, like "masshiro" would be pure white. The second symbol is the one used for "cooking" or in this case, the baking of pottery. different styles of pottery, typically pronounced "yaki" (like takoyaki, or hagiyaki), but here it is "yake." All together, it is "true firing," which I guess in a sense is wood firing.
Anyway, language lesson over.
I thought it was interesting that the pot had an almost bizen look to it. I suppose that's due to the wood firing. These last two or three pots had a much glossier look than the previous mayake pots (some of which are still available). I suppose that Yamada is testing different glazes?
I liked the look of the other one that has sold (with the straighter handle and the inset lid), but I was not so much a fan of the sea-shell impressions on it (as subtle as they were).
Interesting. It seems many times lids are superfluous. I too tend to just take the lid off.but also oddly, I brew ... lids off most of the time.
Great work by Hiroyuki Tomita
And yet, if the lid was broken ... it would bother me. I like to have the pot and lid before I start brewing, aesthetics I guess. Sometimes, I like to simply admire the complete pot, on the shelf, in my hands.BioHorn wrote:Interesting. It seems many times lids are superfluous. I too tend to just take the lid off.but also oddly, I brew ... lids off most of the time.
OK, I asked Toru regarding the clay used by Yamada Sou ... actually extended the question a bit. Here is his reply.PEARL wrote:Gorgeous, well that pot certainly wasn't available long, wonder what teachatter got that beautyChip wrote:OK, I'll play ... Yamada Sou mayake (wood fired). Might be the best mayake kyusu I have seen by Yamada. What do you think?
Also, total newb, are the mayake style pots made of the same shudei red clay just fired differently, and what effect does that have on the brew?
Iron oxide is a common ingredient used in Tokoname, it darkens the fired clay. TBH, I figured it was added the his Kyusu clay but it is good to know. But, now I am curious if he ever does not add iron oxide and what the finished product would look like!Toru wrote:The clay used for shudei and mayake are the same. Sou blends his own based on the traditional clay
used by his family. The shudei clay has iron oxide added.
The white clay for Aoyu comes from Shigaraki.
Thanks for the info Chip, and also Drax.Chip wrote: OK, I asked Toru regarding the clay used by Yamada Sou ... actually extended the question a bit. Here is his reply.
Iron oxide is a common ingredient used in Tokoname, it darkens the fired clay. TBH, I figured it was added the his Kyusu clay but it is good to know. But, now I am curious if he ever does not add iron oxide and what the finished product would look like!Toru wrote:The clay used for shudei and mayake are the same. Sou blends his own based on the traditional clay
used by his family. The shudei clay has iron oxide added.
The white clay for Aoyu comes from Shigaraki.
A case of not quite sure ... is iron oxide added also to the Mayake clay???