Shino is a rich pottery with beautiful glazes*1 and rhythmic touch.
It uses “Mogusa-tsuchi” which has unique Tsuchi-aji*2 in Mino and glazes made from several different feldspars. 
I would like to express freedom like my favorite avant-garde paintings, while thinking about old potteries illustrating landscape of nature and imagined scenery in Momoyama era. 

*1 Glaze…a substance which prevents ceramics from water penetration, scratches, and dirt. It becomes glassy when fired. It is used to add designs on ceramics, too.
*2 Tsuchi-aji…a technical term for ceramis which means clay from different places have different natures that affects the finished product.

Oribe has a variety of expression such as Ao-Oribe*1, Kuro-Oribe*2, and Oribe-Guro*3.
Green glazes are colored with copper, black is with iron.
White is with feldspar and so on.
Geometric motifs and distorted shapes are fun and sophisticated at the same time.

*1 Ao-Oribe…a kind of Oribe potteries which colors bluish.
*2 Kuro-Oribe…a kind of Oribe potteries which is black and has motifs.
*3 Oribe-Guro…a kind of Oribe potteries which is all black.

It is also known as “Hikidashi-Guro” (Pullout Black).
I “pull out” dishes made with white clay and iron glaze from burning kilns.
Burn up a kiln slowly and carefully until dishes’ glazes melt, and grab out them from a whole of kiln by using iron bars, then sink them in filled water.
Water boil with bubbles, “Seto-Guro” dishes will transform into brilliant black and appear from the bottom of water.
Seto-Guro has been born since ancient times with this way which could seem reckless.