Shino Glazes

White Tenmoku: The Birth Of Shino.

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'Tenmoku', is the Japanese name for the mountain range in China of 'T'ien Mu Shan'. Shown here are two white tenmoku bowls and then a raku form with the white tenmoku glaze on it.

No Soda Ash, No Clay Shino

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This was glazed in the green state. Clay Body Ohio Fireclay from Roseville. Also Roseville Natural, Mixed Particle Sized Grog.

Shot Of Foot

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Mino Shino

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No clay in it or soda ash. Uses calcined Alumnina Oxide.

Ohio Fireclay Body Under Mino Shino

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Shino over Ohio Fireclay Body

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Winter Shino Tea Bowl

Dirk Gilespie Shino Bowl

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Matcha Jawan by Dirk Gilespie of Omaha, NE

Raymond Avenue Show

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My "Morning Coffee" Tea Bowl

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MacKenzie Chawan

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Metallic Shinos

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More Metallic Shino

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Metallic only over Iron Underglaze decoration
Mogusa clay.

New Shinos

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On You-Betcha Ko-shigaraki clay. No soda ash

Other side. Includes low-melt Spodumene

A standard Minnestoa Shino with Helmers. The iron in the Helmers turns it metallic.

Mino Shino Alumina Oxide and Low-melt Spodumene

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Mino Shino from John Britt's glaze book.

white hakame slip inside. Whitens and smooths pinholing

Nezumi Shino

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Nezumi Shino, Yanagi/Willow Inlay.

First Mogusa 艾 Clay and E-Shino

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Shino was a Favorite glaze of mine in Minnesota. I have made many tests, and after about 5 years of test have come up with something I like.

The clay is have Mogusa shino clay and Half Mashiko Nami. Iron brush unglaze decoration.

Inside and Bottom Shots

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Shino tea bowl known as "Hagoromo"

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9.0cm by 13.4cm inside: 6.2cm

Nezumi Shino tea bowl of Hori-mishima style

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8.4cm by 14.1~14.7cm inside: 6.6

E-Shino Bowl with flowering grass design

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8.8cm by 26.7~29.5cm

Buttery Shinos

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Hank Murrow 3 Footed Tea Bowl.

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T These are my first tries with indoor lighting on pots. I am using clear sky blue 6700 kelvin lighting. Tatsuo sent me this fine bowl over the holiday seasons. Thank you Tatsuo! Thank you Hank!

Foot View, Nice Grooved Feet!

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Warren MacKenzie Tea Bowl

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Got this and the pot below over the holidays. If you click and look at larger image, you can see large stone feldspar on the glaze surface and maybe applied ash. MacKenzie is in his 80s and continues to experiment.

Foot View!

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Another MacKenzie. I think this is Brown Mat over Shino.

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Foot View, Nice Pinholing over trimmed area

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A fine Shino bowl given to me by N.Carolina potter Leanne Pizo. I am eating watermelon out of it as I type...
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Shino, From Tatsuo

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Hi All:
Wanted to post on this topic the first time it came up, but too busy with kids to get to much e-mail these days. Glad that it has surfaced again. I'm no expert on Shino wares, but had done some reading & looking a few years ago when our daughter was born and we named her "Shino." Wanted to have the info for when she grew up, but also to answer everyone's question "What does that mean?"
In fact, most Japanese people don't feel that their name has any literal meaning, but just explain the etymology of the Chinese characters used to write their name. In this case, we wanted her to know the pottery history as well.
In terms of being called a "white glaze," most historical sources start Shino wares with early 16th century "White Temmoku" items, possibly from nearby Ise. Early glazes were ash, and then replaced by feldspathic glazes. The local clay in the Tajimi and Toki areas was/is "mogusatsuchi." Other clays still in this area are "gotomaki" and "odo," but most like the tea wares that we see used in the historical Shino wares were comprised of the mogusa clay. The clay/glaze combination is what produces the small pin holes, "suana" (lit. "nest holes") that give　he texture of "yuzu hada" (citron skin) that is a Shino characteristic.

Painting on "e-shino" (picture Shino) was done with brown iron-oxide.The actual use of the name "Shino" doesn't start till later in the 16th century. As Lee wrote, the name is usually associated the Tea & Incense Master, Shino Soushin, who died sometime around 1500 (there are different dates.) Because the name of the pottery doesn't jive with his dates, some see this as big hole in the story. But, think of all of the
things that are named for people after they die. Doesn't seem such a stretch for me. And, we do know that he was influential enough to have a "Koudou" (Way of Incense) School named after him.

Lee gave several given translations for "Shino." The first character is kokorozashi," and read as "Shi" in this case. A standard translation is "ambition." The character "no" as in "nohara", can mean field or plain. We tell people our daughter's name means "Boundless Ambition," but again names usually don't carry a literal meaning.
Lee also names the several types of Shino wares. To that list, I'll add other names that I've seen used: "Hai-Shino" (Ash Shino), "Beni-Shino" (Crimson Shino), and "Neriage-Shino" (Marbled Shino).
To this day, I don't know the difference between Beni-Shino & Aka (Red)-Shino, but have seen both names appear on the same list, so there must be a difference. If anyone knows, and has photos, please post.
What makes Shino unique is that the history of this Momoyama Period ware was unclear until re-discovered and revived by Arakawa Toyozo and others in the 20th century. This is probably why there is such confusion over what qualities constitute the designation "Shino."
This historical rhetoric might not mean much to most, but consider this in the arguments for and against calling something "Shino." It's been described, on this list & elsewhere; as a glaze, a firing technique, a color, etc. Bear in mind that historical Shino-yaki is a regional ware,
as it is a branch of Mino-yaki (which also includes Oribe, SetoGuro [Black Seto], and Ki-Seto [Yellow Seto].) As such, the clay body, glaze, firing technique, and decorating traditions all play a part in the definition of this ware.
In this day and age, availability of materials makes it possible to make wares outside of their region of origin. For example, I have no problems in calling something Mashiko-yaki that is produced outside of Mashiko with Mashiko materials & traditions. However, substituting materials,even when the pot is made in Mashiko, makes is what we call "Mashiko-fuu" ("fuu" being "like, apperance, style, type, etc.") and "Mashiko-rashii" (similar to Mashiko), or possibly not Mashiko-yaki at
all. I think the same should hold true of Shino-yaki. "Shino" has become a term widely used without regard to traditional pottery nomenclature in Japan, because it is somewhat of a mystery ware. But consider that no one calls something truly "Bizen," unless it is Bizen clay. All extant wares in Japan have gone through some sort of evolution (good and bad), so change is not an issue in nomenclature. But, some respect for tradition is important is name designation of wares.
I think that calling something American Shino or Quebec Shino is a good start in recognizing that not every Shino is the same as historical Japanese Shino. However, there should also be some standard, in terms of materials and methods, as to what comprises an American Shino. Has this happened yet?
In the meantime, shall we call it "Shino-fuu", Shino-type, ware?Another aside about Mino wares is that Shino and Oribe wares, highly influenced by not only the Tea Ceremony, but by individual Tea Masters and tastes (Shino Soushin & Furuta Oribe in these cases) might be considered as some of the first wares in Japan that are similar to whatto the artist-potter creates today. We often assume that late 19th & early 20th century potters, such as Tomimoto, Hamada, Rosanjin, & Kawai broke out of the mold of traditional potters to become the first studio or artist-potters, but I think that Shino & Furuta may have done something similar back in the Momyama Period, although they may have not been actual potters, but the designers of truly creative wares that speak to us differently (in an almost modern and fresh way) than almost
anything that preceded them in traditional Japanese pottery.

Tatsuo Tomeoka
Seattle, WA
P.S. I hope that my daughter takes up pottery some day. Maybe she'll
invent "Shino-Shino".

I added in response to Tatsuo's post:

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Thanks Tatsuo! I was hoping you'd have something to say about your daughter's name-sake. :-) I will put this on a shino photo weblog I just put up.

One thing I'd like to add, that along with calling American Shinos "American Shinos", the newly developed shinos here in Japan should be called something different, like maybe Shin-shinos "New Shino" because the tradition of shino here is not an unbroken tradition but one that was independently "recovered." Many of the shinos, like Osamu Suzuki's or Ken Matsuzaki or the Murasaki Shinos of Tomio Suzuki sometimes look less like the traditional shinos than do American shinos, that were based on the Freer analysis of mino samples.

I remember seeing Osamu Suzuki's humongous bright orange shino bowls at the opening show of National Living Treasures at the Ibaraki Ceramic museum. I wondered if he made them for Bozo the Clown. ;-)

Speaking of Matsuzaki, he did a workshop in Liverpool in May. You can read more here (see images of his work, essay and bio):

http://www.clayart.org.uk/ken/matsuzaki-ken.htm

Svend Bayer is listed at this site too. I cannot think of two more different potters. I wish I could arrange to get Sven to come here and do a kiln building workshop.
--

Lee Love
in Mashiko, Japan http://mashiko.org
http://hankos.blogspot.com/ Visual Bookmarks
http://ikiru.blogspot.com/ Zen and Craft

About the best pots:

"They are not necessarily amenable to intellectual analysis, and, in fact, that analysis can destroy a person's real appreciation and understanding of a piece."
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　
　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　-- Warren MacKenzie

The Name Shino

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Kanji for Shino: 志野しの Shino

If you use the Kanji above to search Google, you will find Japanese
shinos that the word shino does not pick up.

These are the root kanji for Shino:

志 3B56 [2754:8e75] U5fd7
べべしゆき intention; plan; resolve; aspire; motive; hopes; shilling

野 4C6E [4478:96ec] U91ce

【埜】XJ1384F
【ヤショのの- T1 ずけつけぬ plains; field; rustic; civilian life
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*Shino*
　　In Momoyama Era(1570's - 1598), only feldspar was used as material
for Shino glaze.　　In Hiromi area, eastern part of Mt. Sanage, there are holes where feldspars were digged.
　　In Akazu, west of Mt. Sanage, there are holes where feldspars were
digged. Pottery with Shino glaze in Mino area is called generally "*Aka-Shino*"(Red Shino) because the work 　　becomes red due to feldspar glaze which includes many iron. While,
Shino glaze in Akazu area is called generally "*Shiro-Shino*"(White Shino) because the work becomes white 　　due to feldspar glaze which includes little iron.
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Shino Substyles:*

* e-Shino (decorated, or "pictured" ware;
iron-oxide designs applied under shino glaze)
* muji Shino (plain white)
* aka-Shino (red Shino)
* beni Shino (red)
* nezumi Shino (gray or "mouse-colored");
designs carved into iron slip; piece covered by Shino glaze

Lee In Mashiko, Japan

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More Picture Shino
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Mouse Shino
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Picture Shino.
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Foot Fetish!
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Picture Shino.
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A Modern Japanese Shino
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Bamboo Shoots
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Nezumi Shino. Got a crack in it. Better give it to me!
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Not perfect by Industrial standards.
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Beautiful Flaws.
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Crazing, pinholes and crawling.
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Funky Foot.
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Crazed
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Aka (red) Shino
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Nezumi (Mouse Colored) Shino
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Item Feldspar glaze - plate 1(inside parenthesis peaceful oven Sino)
SiO2 64.15(65.99
Al2O3 20.06(18.63
Fe2O3 0.51(0.57)
TiO2 0.01(0.01)
CaO 2.44(1.49)
MgO 0.27(0.31)
K2O 11.38(12.38)
Na2O 1.18(0.62)
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Analysis value of Toki river feldspar
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