A brooding Bizen Guinomi blackened and shiny opposite a blast of ash by Oiwa Tomoyuki enclosed in the original signed wooden box. There is a wonderful dialog between the two sides, the blackened with a burnished dark surface, while over the same darkness has been blasted molten ash on the cup, flowing around and beading on one side. The juxtaposition between light and dark is delightful. The sake cup is 7 cm (2-3/4 inches) diameter, 6.5 cm (2-1/2 inches) tall, and in excellent condition.
Oiwa Tomoyuki was born in Hyogo prefecture in 1977, and graduated the Bizen Ceramic Center in 2004. The following year he came to study under the outsider Kakurezaki Ryuichi, where he would remain for 8 years, garnering a lifetime worth of knowledge from the master before going independent. In 2014 he built a half-submerged tunnel kiln (anagama), completing his first firing in 2015. He has since been featured widely and is known for sell out shows, especially for his sake vessels.
