English follows.
大窯で出た青備前の香炉のご紹介!
稲藁の自然釉がとても神々しいですね!
ここまでの金彩がでることはなかなか無いので貴重な一品です。
ご利益がありそうな輝き…(笑)
緋襷と同じく稲藁を巻いて焼くのですが、還元の酸素の薄い状態で焼くとこの様な景色になることがあります。
陶古の大窯で沢山の数を焼けるからできることでもあります。
不思議ですね!
ぜひ高画質でご覧ください。
Oh,,, what a beautiful natural glaze.
It’s shining gold!
The method is almost the same as that of “Hidasuki”.
The iron in the clay and alkali in the rice straw create a chemical reaction inside the kiln resulting in the red color. Thanks to this chemical reaction, traces of the rice straw create a pattern, resembling the flames.
But Blue Bizen is made by reduction firing.
The only difference between red (Hidasuki) and blue is the oxygen concentration during the firing. It is very difficult to control all of the elements needed to create “blue Bizen”, so this color is very rare and prized by connoisseurs.