Kazuya Furutani - Shigaraki potter

Distinctive style, rough texture, 3 1/2 in high, maybe soda-glazed?






I'm guessing this is a mark?

wood fired by the look of it

Very nice. Wood fired. Japanese imo.

Bizen marks, but might be Iga ware.

http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/bizen-markings.html

By Kazuya Furutani, Iga / Shigaraki ware

http://fushikinogallery.onamae.jp/kazuya_furutani/?fbclid=IwAR0_XgYNb_9ZeQNaP-NdBBr9MZUm7YWUFblhO5FHKq7r_MTBhX3B_GafEdE

Brilliant Naomi, thanks for the research.

I thought it was a nice one

I couldn't find the mark on the page that Naomi put up but I did check it elsewhere. Goldmark has some of his work and probably had more in the past and so that it probably where your katakuchi originated from. Katakuchi is a small pouring bowl traditionally made for pouring sake but you can use the term just to "impress your friends"

He was born in 1976 and lives and works in Shigaraki and the stoneware body with the feldspar is typical of Shigaraki dug clay. The firing is also typical of Shigaraki, quite like traditional wood-fired work from Iga but completely different from traditional wood-fired Bizen pottery.

Hmmm a katakuchi eh?
Thanks for the info SP.

So is that his mark next to the seashell?

Yes. Lisa Hammond now uses a similar incised mark in the Japanese manner.

Kazuya Furutani's mark