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Made from iron-rich red clay and fired at 1100°C

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Wada Kazufumi Premium Matcha Bowl - Kiseto / 和田和文作 抹茶碗 黄瀬戸 lamp evolving designs to suit theWhen we visited Wada Kazufumi() at his kiln( Keizan Kiln) in Toki City, he told us something that has stayed with us. Many ceramic artists working today are technically skilled, he said. Fewer compound their own glazes. Some simply purchase theirs ready made a convenience that, to his mind, removes the potter from the very heart of the craft. Ceramics, for Wada san, is not assembly. It is inquiry: into the clay, into the fire, into the materials that