Monthly Archives: January 2012

Bonsai Pottery by Haruyoshi

In todays feature we’ll have a look at potter Haruyoshi.  One of the modern masters of painted porcelain pots, including sometsuke(cobalt blue underglaze), red underglaze, and five color styles of porcelain painting.  Along with Gekkou and Fujikake Yuzan, Haruyoshi is … Continue reading

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Bushuan Pots Part 2

Today’s post we’ll look at a few more pots from Shigeru Fukuda, aka Bushuan, the subject of our last post. In addition to the Bushuan from my collection on my “For Sale” page, all of the pots shown in today’s … Continue reading

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Pots by Shigeru Fukuda(Bushuan)

Today’s post is a selection of pots from contemporary potter Shigeru Fukuda, who makes pots under the trade name “Bushuan” or sometimes, “Fukumo”. A former professional motorcycle and automobile racer, Fukuda took up Bonsai as a hobby at 27, became … Continue reading

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Two Special Tofukuji Pots In Depth

For today’s post we will look at 2 Heian Tofukuji pots in the collection of bonsai artist and fellow American pot collector Matt Ouwinga. Matt has a great eye for pots and the most extensive collection of Tofukuji pots in … Continue reading

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Pots From My Collection 8(and 6)

Here are a few more pots from my collection that I thought were worthy of a few shots. As one of my readers pointed out, I completely skipped Collection Post 6 and went from 5 to 7. So this will … Continue reading

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Chop and Signature Resource

If you look at the top of the page here next to the “About” page you’ll see that the new “Chop and Signature Resource” page is now up. Either hover with your mouse over the chop image or click on … Continue reading

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