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A wide, low Tamba ware mug by Shozo Gama with diagonal hand carved facets, a deep amber and iron brown glaze on the lower body transitioning to pale stone at the rim, and a dark loop handle, photographed against a white background.
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Amber Glaze
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Amber Glaze
Shozo Gama

Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Amber Glaze

Sale price$69.00

The same hand-carved facets that define this form also determine how the glaze behaves. Rich amber and dark iron brown collect within each diagonal groove, deepening toward near black at the base, while a warm stone glaze at the rim sends irregular drips downward, arriving at the boundary between the two in a way that no 2 pieces will replicate exactly. The result is a surface that reads differently across its width, simultaneously lacquer dark and ember warm. Shozo Gama works within the Tamba tradition, one of Japan's six ancient kilns with over 800 years of continuous craft history in the hills of Hyogo Prefecture, a lineage in which this quality of glaze movement has always been understood as evidence of skill rather than accident. Wide and low in proportion, the mug sits with the quiet authority that Tamba ware has carried for centuries.
A wide, low Tamba ware mug by Shozo Gama with diagonal hand carved facets, a deep amber and iron brown glaze on the lower body transitioning to pale stone at the rim, and a dark loop handle, photographed against a white background.
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Amber Glaze Sale price$69.00

Meet the Artisan

Shozo Gama

Shozo Gama stands on the northern edge of Tachikui, the historic pottery village of Tamba Sasayama, set on elevated ground where the workshop and gallery open onto the seasonal mountain landscape of Hyogo Prefecture. Here, surrounded by the unhurried rhythms of the Tamba hills, Ichino Motokazu and his son Ichino Shusaku work within one of Japan's most enduring ceramic traditions, shaping each piece entirely by hand from local Tamba clay.

Shusaku Ichino, the third generation of the kiln's practice, has developed a voice that is at once rooted in tradition and quietly forward-looking. Working with wood-fired kilns and ash glazes that shift and deepen through the firing, he pursues the powerful, grounded character that defines the finest Tamba ware, while bringing his own considered sensibility to form and surface. The result is work that carries the weight of 800 years of craft without being bound by it.

From tea bowls and flower vessels to tableware made for daily use, every piece that leaves Shozo Gama reflects the same conviction: that the most meaningful objects are those shaped with patience, fired with intention, and made to belong in the hands and on the tables of those who will use them.