Shigeo Tanaka | Zogan small cup

Shigeo Tanaka lives and works in a 280-year-old house in Oku-Asuka, Nara Prefecture. His tea cups are made by learning from antiques and communicating with nature, and can be used not only for Chinese tea, but also for sake and small one-plate dishes.

He get the clay from mountain, the workshop, and the kiln made all by himself, and used the potter's wheel to create the shapes with a keen sense of body. Zogan (inlaying) is a painstaking process of scraping iron-rich clay into grooves in the scraped pattern. The beauty increases with time.

Size: Bore approx. 5.8 cm x 5.8 cm x 3.5 cm (height)

Profile:
1963 - Born in Kyoto
2003 - First solo exhibition at Kawaguchi Art, Kyoto
2007 - Moved to an old house in Asuka Village, Nara Prefecture
2011 - Built anagama kiln
2016 - Built a wood-fired kiln