Wow, Furutani Sensei has outdone himself this time!A fabulous flask shaped vessel deeply scored with chevron pattern to which clings and runs in rivulets the natural ash glaze as it blows through the kiln, charring the shoulder on one side, and congealing as it runs through the deep clefts to form crystalized and calcified bodies on the opposite side.It is enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shigaraki Shizen-yu Shinogi Hanaire.The vase is 10.5 x 13.5 x 20 cm (4 x 5-1/2 x 8 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Furutani Taketoshi was born the son of master craftsman Furutani Hirofumi in 1974, graduating the Shigaraki Industrial High School Ceramics department in 1992 before entering the Shiga prefectural Ceramics Research Facility studying wheel technique, graduating the following year. He then did a year apprenticeship at a pottery before re-entering for a second course at the Research Facility, graduating in 1995. From that year he returned to the family kiln, receiving the family tradition from both his grandfather Furutani Churoku and father Furutani Hirofumi. Subverting the self, he makes simple, organic pots which have a timeless quality, very much rooted in the now, but paying homage to the traditions past down through the ages. He was named a Designated Traditional Craftsman (Dento Kogeishi) in 2013. He has exhibited with the Nihon Dento Kogeiten among others, and still works closely with his father at the family kiln.
