Japan Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery

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Tōgenkyo

It expresses a collaboration with the natural world the climate and the natural features of Fukushima have cultivated.

Fukushima has established the loyal position of the Fruit Kingdom.
Various fruits are harvested in each season in Fukushima, which has fierce heat especially specific to the basin geography of Fukushima and a harsh temperature difference between at day time and night in summers and extremely cold weather and the environment in winters.

Fruits Line, 14 kilometers long road a.k.a. Prefectural Route 5, passing through the foot of Mt. Azuma and along with loads of orchards reaches Iizaka town in Fukushima city, where Kyogetsu Pottery locates. It's the latest series and is injected new life as it exploits calcination ashes of local peaches and apples as a material of glaze.

Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery/ Togenkyo series and image of calcined ash made from fruits

Tempyo no iraka

This is one of the most popular series at Kyogetsu Pottery,
that features the color of the roof from the ancient period.

Tempyo culture was being developed, especially from 729 to 749, going back to 1,200 years from the modern world.
Tempyo culture, an aristocratic culture with highly cosmopolitan character, flourished in the Nara period and the character let develop a variety of things as temples, Buddhism, arts, and literature.

This series, Tempyo no iraka, displays refined color, that is dedicated to express a motif color of the roof from the Tempyo period, having the golden time in the Nara period.

Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery/ Tempyo no iraka series

Tōryoku

This series portrays a sense of season from autumn to winter by color tones.

The season that autumn has just passed and you may feel the advent of coming cold season…

Tōryoku is the series that portrays the season's transition like that with soft and mild shades.

Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery/ Tou-Ryoku series

Shisai

This series is designed to represent a warm sunny spot…

It's like the poetic world you felt back in the old days…

This work is inspired by a heartwarming scene with the sun softly shining, and it is finished as if there is something nostalgic about it.

How about thinking of good old times with this warm texture series.

Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery/ Shisai series

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Ōbori sōma wareKONTOKU Kyōgetsu Pottery

Location: 4 Michiminami Hirano Iizaka-machi, Fukushima city, Fukushima pref.

TEL・FAX:　024-542-2818

Opening hours:　9:00-18:00 (Irregular holidays)

Obori Soma-ware Kyogetsu Pottery/ Appearance

Direction

From the direction of Tokyo: Tohoku Expressway until Fukushima junction and exchange to Tohoku-chuo Expressway, then get off at Fukushima Ozaso interchange.
Take Prefectural Route 5 (Fruit Line) to Iizaka direction. Turn right at the traffic lights at Magariyakaju Orchards, then go straight about 300 m and you will see the guide plate on your left side.
From the direction of Sendai: Take Tohoku Expressway and get off at Iizaka interchange.
Then, proceed National Route 13 to Yonezawa direction and turn left to Prefectural Route 5 (Fruit Line). Then, turn left at the traffic lights at Magariyakaju Orchards and go straight about 300m and you will see the guide plate on your left side.