ribe ware

Creative pottery baked in the Mino kiln in the eastern part of Mino country (Gifu prefecture). The area has a tradition of pottery making since the Heian period, but it has made great progress toward the end of the Muromachi period, and in particular, it is used to bake tea utensils with the taste of tea masters in order to use it as a tool for the emerging "Wabi" and tea ceremony. I started to build it. As an extension of that, Oribe ware began to be created from the first year of Keicho (1596-1615) in the latter half of the Momoyama period, and it has a characteristic that is said to be the leader of the tea ceremony world at that time, Furuta Oribe's taste, in addition to the style and design. Therefore, it is called by this name. A large amount of Nobori Gama, which was introduced from Karatsu ware in Kyushu at the Kujiri Motoyashiki kiln in Toki City, which is one of the representative Mino kilns. It started to be baked in Kyushu, and many excellent works were also baked here. In addition, sub-style kilns such as Yananada kiln in Kana city, Nembutsu in Kasahara town in Tajimi city, Inari kiln, Nishi, etc., Mizunami city In the surrounding kilns such as the Okawa Higashi kiln, it continued to be fired from the beginning to the middle of the Edo period, and in the latter half of the Edo period, the Seto potters revived the tradition.

The features of Oribe ware's modeling and design are the free "form" that completely breaks the conventional concept of a shape centered on a circle, and the pattern and its composition drawn are not bound by the fixed concept at all. It is made up of two elements of "design", which is extremely rough.