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Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze
Shozo Gama

Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze

Sale price$69.00

There is a restraint to this piece that takes a moment to fully read. Pale ash white and warm sand move across the hand-carved facets in broad, unhurried passages, separated by fine iron lines that follow each ridge from rim to foot. No single tone dominates. The glaze shifts from chalky opacity to a softer translucence depending on where it has settled, and the dark, unglazed foot grounds the whole with a frankness that feels deliberate. This is ash glazing in its most considered form, neither dramatized nor reduced, the kind of surface that rewards attention over time rather than announcing itself immediately. Shozo Gama works within the Tamba tradition of Hyogo Prefecture, one of Japan's six ancient kilns with over 800 years of continuous craft history, and this mug reflects that lineage with an assurance that requires nothing added.
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze
Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash 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.