Ino Shukuho - Green Crystal Oribe Rectangle - 6¾in (17cm)

Japanese bonsai pot by Ino Shukuho. Rectangle, cut feet, green crystal oribe glaze with seal of Ino underneath.

Informal information:

When it comes to green crystal glazes, Shukuho is as close as you will get to a Tofukuji.

An excellent shohin rectangle from Ino Shukuho with his classic green crystal oribe glaze. This is a good sized shohin pot, the glaze is a very good example of it, with great streaking and a light amount of crystallisation.

Green pots make great partners with many species, especially Acers and flowering species like Chaenomeles / Chojubai, or evergreen deciduous like Trachelospermum.

Condition: used, patina, a glaze drip has broken off on one long side (see chop pic), I expect this was a glaze drip that got as far as the kiln shelf and broke on cooling, and so is a firing defect. This is accounted for in the price, but really it's part of the nature with drippy glazes.

Ino Shukuho, born 1943 Kyoto. Real name Ino Yoshiki. He is the 3rd generation of his family making pottery, the 1st gen built a wood fired climbing kiln, the 2nd gen., Ino Kiichiro used the climbing kiln and sold items to the Imperial household and more importantly for us, was a friend of Heian Tofukuji. 

Both Tofukuji and the Ino potters were taught about bonsai pots and suitable glazes by Takeyama Fusao, previous head of the Fuyo-en nursery. The Fuyo-en stamp (Mt Fuji) is regularly seen on pots by Ino Shukuho and Aiba Koyo. Kiichiro and Tofukuji developed glazes together, most famously the green crystal oribe, and Tofukuji fired in the Ino kiln.

I have read that Ino Shukuho (3rd gen.) carves his pots from a block of clay, which limits the number of pots he can make. Although he no longer uses the climbing kiln, he is the protector of it, and has inherited and further developed his own glazes and painted works.

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