Shoji Kamoda : Stoneware Jar

After ten years of working in Mashiko, Tochigi, Mr. Shoji Kamoda set up a new studio in Tono, Iwate, in 1969 and began working there.

This piece is a vase that was made in Mashiko just before he moved to Tono.
During the construction of the new studio, he brought back local clay from Tono and formed and fired it by hand at his studio in Mashiko.

Stoneware is a word that means "pottery with a tempered finish," and Mr. Kamoda liked to use this word in his works during this period at the end of the 1960s.
The surface of the vessel, made of coarse Tono clay containing many small and large grains of sand and fired without glaze, is beautiful and neat.

There is a carved signature on the base.

Shoji Kamoda : 1976, Tea Bowl

The total number of posthumous works of Mr. Shoji Kamoda, who died prematurely, is quite limited compared to other potters, and when it comes to the work of tea bowl, it becomes a rare item.
This work was produced in 1976, and is wheel thrown on white clay, with black and dark blue colored glaze applied with a brush.
The abstract design resembling a bird's decorative feathers is painted on two sides, and the white outline of the border, which skillfully utilizes the leftover glaze, is impressive.
The edge of the mouth is sharp and pronounced, and the work has a sense of tension with its clear colors.
There is an engraved signature on the base.