14/04/2026
When fire becomes the painter.
In the first photograph, she stands alone. Set on dark wood, against a white brick wall — a jar with a full, rounded body and a surface so rough and deep it recalls moss on an ancient stone.
In the second, a dried rose, a banksia, a cluster of white berries. Plants that have themselves passed through time. Together they form something obvious, something right — as if this jar had always been waiting for exactly those flowers.
This piece is the work of Yukitaka Hatsuda, a ceramic artist based in Kyoto. His practice rests on a single, radical principle: no glaze, ever. He entrusts each piece entirely to his anagama pit kiln, dug into the hillside of Kasatori-chō, where for several days, at temperatures exceeding 1,300 °C, wood ash swirls through the chamber, settles on the clay, melts and flows where it will.
This is shizen-yu — natural glaze. And on this jar, it has left its most precious mark: a slender brown ribbon that traces the widest curve of the vessel in an almost perfect horizontal line — the memory of a single breath of flame, captured forever in the clay.
It is not a decorative motif. It is the memory of fire.
Its modest size — 20 × 24 × 20 cm — makes it a natural companion for everyday life. On a sideboard, a shelf, a windowsill. With flowers, or without. It settles into a space with quiet authority, and you will never tire of it.
✦ One of a kind · Ships from Kyoto, Japan
✦ Available at lifewithkogei.jp 🔗 Link in comments
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