Ruri Glaze Ribbed Soup Cup - Crafted By Hitoshi Kato Tamori Touen the dark tone building at

the dark tone building at the base and lightening toward the rim

clean and uncompromising

Chojuro Kiln is based in Nagasaki

The interior is left to the food

The craft tradition behind this work is regional and long-established — a way of making that the area has sustained for generations

Ruri Glaze Ribbed Soup Cup - Crafted By Hitoshi Kato Tamori Touen the dark tone building atGlazed and fired by hand, this cup holds the quiet character of something made individually not uniform, not repeated exactly, but consistent in weight and presence. It is the kind of piece that improves with use. Hitoshi Kato works in Gifu, Japan, forming and glazing each cup by hand. The process is unhurried each piece is made individually, one at a time, and the maker's attention shows in the way the cup sits in the hand. Japanese ceramics have