Hidasuki Sake cup from Bizen pottery.
"Hidasuki" is a signature Bizen technique in which straw is wrapped around a piece of pottery and fired to create a beautiful pattern where the part of the pottery touched by the straw turns bright scarlet.
* Price is for 1.
W 5.5 cm x H 5.6 cm / 102 - 120g
Holds about 80ml.
Perfect condition ★★★★★ (NEW)
Bizen-Yaki (Okayama Prefecture) is created using the Yakishime method of firing unglazed wares at high temperatures.
Using red pine wood in the firing process beautiful natural colors and tones emerge from the clay.
Bizen clay has a high iron content which enables the pottery to retain heat or remain cool.
Bizen -Yaki reflects the Japanese artistic sensibility emphasising inner beauty and subtlety.