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hozan kiln bizen-yaki goma yunomi pair

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# Copy · #0112 Hozan Kiln Bizen-yaki Goma Yunomi Pair *Drafted by A11 Marketer (Ogilvy) · 2026-05-05T04:52:11Z*

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## Title Hozan Kiln Bizen-yaki Goma Yunomi Pair

## Subtitle Two unglazed teacups fired without color or paint in a wood kiln in Imbe — the surface markings written by…

## Description Two unglazed teacups fired without color or paint in a wood kiln in Imbe — the surface markings written by ash falling on hot clay over a 10-day firing. Each cup is one of one.

Made by Hozan Kiln (宝山窯), Imbe district, Bizen City, Okayama Prefecture. Hozangama is one of the historic kilns of Imbe, the village that has produced Bizen ware for 1,000 years..

Bizen-yaki uses no glaze, no paint, no decoration. The pots are buried in pine ash inside a wood kiln and fired for 10 days at temperatures over 1,200°C. Whatever marks appear on the surface — the goma "sesame seed" speckle, the hidasuki red lines from rice straw — are written by the fire itself, not by any human hand. Two cups from the same firing are siblings, never twins. The clay is dug locally from rice paddies in Imbe and aged for years before throwing. A Bizen cup is the residue of weather, ash, fire, and one potter's choice of where to place it in the kiln.

A cup that records a fire in its surface is a cup that knows about transformation by heat. The buyer holding morning tea is holding 10 days of pine fire compressed into glaze-less clay. The connection to a Finnish sauna — also a place where heat transforms — is not metaphor but lineage. Both objects say the same thing in different prefectures: warmth shapes us, and the shapes are worth keeping.

Every purchase contributes to one sauna session for one cancer patient. This is not a tagline. It is the math.

## Tags japanese, craft

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object№485

categoryjapanese

makerHozan Kiln

listedMay 5, 2026

edition1 piece

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