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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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shozo Gama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023420219706,"sku":"szg010010101","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShozoGama_AshGlaze_1.webp?v=1773469039"},{"product_id":"tamba-ware-large-faceted-mug-ash-glaze-light-blue","title":"Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze Light Blue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOf the glazes Shozo Gama applies to this form, the light blue ash is perhaps the most unguarded. Soft periwinkle and chalk white move across the faceted surface in broad, overlapping passages, neither fully contained within each carved plane nor entirely indifferent to it. Fine iron lines trace the ridges where the clay was cut, offering the only fixed points in an otherwise fluid composition. The base clay asserts itself at the foot, warm and unglazed, grounding a surface that might otherwise feel weightless. Ash glazes of this kind have a long history in Tamba's ceramic tradition, their particular softness inseparable from the wood-firing conditions that the kilns of Hyogo Prefecture have sustained for over 800 years. Wide and low, the form is unchanged from the others in this series. What changes is the mood, and here it is considered and still.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shozo Gama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023420252474,"sku":"szg010010102","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShozoGama_AshGlaze_LightBlue_2.webp?v=1773468963"},{"product_id":"tamba-ware-large-faceted-mug-amber-glaze","title":"Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Amber Glaze","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shozo Gama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023420285242,"sku":"szg010010103","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShozoGama_AmberGlaze_1.webp?v=1773469073"},{"product_id":"tamba-ware-large-faceted-mug-ash-glaze-honey-tone","title":"Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Ash Glaze Honey Tone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThree glazes meet on this mug, and none of them were fully directed. Warm honey and sandy earth tones occupy the widest portions of each hand-carved facet, interrupted by streaks of deep iron brown and intervals of white that catch the light with a quiet sheen. Where the glazes converge at the ridges, they bleed into one another, producing tones that exist somewhere between smoke and amber. This layered, unpredictable surface is characteristic of Tamba ware at its most expressive, a tradition practiced without interruption for over 800 years in the hills of Hyogo Prefecture and recognized among Japan's six ancient kilns. Shozo Gama works within that lineage, understanding glaze not as decoration applied to form but as a material with its own inclinations. Wide and grounded in proportion, with a pale loop handle that stands apart from the darker body, the mug holds its complexity without effort.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shozo Gama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023420318010,"sku":"szg010010104","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShozoGama_AshGlaze_HoneyTone_2.webp?v=1773468964"},{"product_id":"tamba-ware-large-faceted-mug-lapis-blue-glaze","title":"Tamba Ware Large Faceted Mug Lapis Blue Glaze","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat arrests the eye first is the color. A deep, saturated blue covers the lower body with an intensity that shifts between indigo and cobalt depending on the light, pooling with particular depth within the diagonal facets carved across the exterior. Toward the rim, the glaze recedes into pale stone and cream, the transition neither abrupt nor entirely gradual, the kind of result that only emerges from a kiln rather than a plan. Shozo Gama works within the Tamba ceramic tradition, one of Japan's six ancient kilns with an unbroken history reaching back over 800 years, centered in the hills of Hyogo Prefecture. The wide, low proportioned form and the hand carved facets speak to Tamba's heritage of functional pottery shaped by a confident, unhurried hand. A dark, smoothly formed handle completes the piece. This is a mug that asks to be held slowly.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shozo Gama","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53023420350778,"sku":"szg010010105","price":69.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/files\/ShozoGama_LapisBlueGlaze_1.webp?v=1773469126"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0707\/4499\/8202\/collections\/ShozoGama_Brand_Square_1.webp?v=1774143654","url":"https:\/\/omakase-forest.com\/collections\/shozo-gama.oembed","provider":"omakase","version":"1.0","type":"link"}