{"id":3190,"date":"2017-05-18T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T11:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/?p=3190"},"modified":"2017-05-18T21:00:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T12:00:07","slug":"scoring-goodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/2017\/05\/scoring-goodies.html","title":{"rendered":"Scoring Goodies"},"content":{"rendered":"

I made a trip out to the mountains in Minamihata yesterday with my mentor to collect materials for pots and glazes, and we stopped by an old kiln site as well.<\/p>\n

We were able to collect a good amount of feldspathic sandstone, weathered feldspar, and the ever popular grey stuff (don’t know what its real name is).<\/p>\n

First, here is what we collected that will become pots and glazes this year:<\/p>\n

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The lot of it<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Grey stuff. This is softer than rock and can be stamp milled or pot milled easily into a fine slurry. It has a lot of iron, and I use it as a glaze ingredient, as a slip, or as a pigment for decoration.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sandstone. This has more iron than I’d normally like, but beggars can’t be choosers. It takes the place of both feldspar additions to clay bodies as well as grog. I like it because it helps the body vitrify, but gives it texture as well.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More sandstone.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Glaze stone from near Okawachiyama. I’m not sure but I believe this is the glaze stone used in Nabeshima celadon. I look forward to testing this.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Closeup. You can see the feldspathic translucent pieces in the matrix, surrounded by the white powdery matrix. I think the white powdery part is high in silica, but again, need to test.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Found this in the same place as the Nabeshima glaze stone. This looks to be more pure feldspar. Very curious to see how it fires!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the way to one of the collecting sites, we passed two old Karatsu kilns, Fujinokawachi and Kayanotani. \u00a0I was surprised because they are separated by no more than 70 meters or so. These were big kilns. Kayanotani was a 22 chamber climbing kiln 52 meters long! Between them, there were probably hundreds of potters working. We couldn’t really access Fujinokawachi, but we were able to walk around on the hill where Kayanotani once stood.<\/p>\n

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Access to Kayanotani. You can see the faint grassy steps up the hill, just to the left and down a bit from the tree.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Sign board standing at the entrance to the kiln site. The shard pile extends up and down the hill to the left of the sign.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The outside surfaces of some coil and paddle flasks. Fujinokawachi and Kayanotani are both known for their fine coil and paddle work.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Interiors of the same. Note the different clays used and the different patterns created from the paddling tools.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Hillside littered with shards and chunks of kiln wall and kiln furniture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The feet of some ash glazed bowls. The clay is quite light in color, and really vitrified.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of some flask lips. On the one, you can see some bubbling in the glaze because the clay body started to bloat. The coil and paddle clay bodies were quite varied, but much of it seemed to contain high amounts of organic matter<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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More bowls. One in a light clay body, the other much darker. Again, vitrified and hard. All of the trimmed pieces I found were trimmed with an economy of movement. There is no wasted time in the trimming here.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of another foot. Gorgeous clay, and lively trimming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Interior detail of bowl directly above. Note the beautifully folded over and compress lip of the piece stuck to the inside here, and the glaze window.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Paddled Chosen Karatsu flask. I wish I could get those blues!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail of flask neck.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Detail, lip.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I made a trip out to the mountains in Minamihata yesterday with my mentor to collect materials for pots and glazes, and we stopped by an old kiln site as well. We were able to collect a good amount of feldspathic sandstone, weathered feldspar, and the ever popular grey stuff (don’t know what its real […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3214,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[36,13,11],"tags":[27,145,5,35,142,150,139,62,143,14,74],"class_list":["post-3190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clay","category-glazes","category-wood-kiln","tag-chosengaratsu","tag-clay","tag-karatsu","tag-karatsupots","tag-kiln","tag-michael-martino","tag-mike-martino","tag-noborigama","tag-wood-kiln","tag-14","tag-74"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_6441.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1FneS-Ps","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3219,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions\/3219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karatsupots.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}