[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools Matcha tea bowl] Awata ware Bell Made by Hiroto Yasuda (Kagiya Yasuda)

What is Awata ware? Awata ware originated in the early Edo period, around the Genna era (1615-1624).
Awata ware (Awataguchi ware) has been around since the early days of Kyoto pottery history and occupies a major position in the group of works known as "Koshimizu."
The first potter at Awata, Sanmoujiya Kuemon, came from Seto, and early Awata ware was glazed with Seto glazing, black glazing, and candy glazing.
Other examples of repurposed works include Shigaraki-style fired pottery and copies of Korean-style items.
In the mid-Edo period, Nonomura Ninsei trained on the wheel in Awata and studied glazes in Seto. After returning to Kyoto, he opened a kiln. Until then, works had only been glazed, or simple works of "rust-painted blue and white" painted with iron and cobalt blue were being produced, but colorful colored paintings began to be produced.
One of its major characteristics is that it flourished as the official kiln for the Shoren-in Temple gate.
Around this time, the 11th head of the Raku family, Hojun, trained in Awata as a young man, and the second head, Takahashi Michihachi, lived in Awata before moving to Gojo.
The poet Otagaki Rengetsu brought his hand-formed works to the kilns, and there were more than 20 large kilns, creating a second golden age of Kyoto ware.
They prospered as pottery makers for the nobility and samurai families, but after the Meiji Restoration, Awata ware, which combined Satsuma ware techniques with the refined designs unique to Kyoto, became very popular in the West as "Kyoto Satsuma." The European art world was in a period of stagnation at the time, but it was the opening of Japan to the world that sent huge ripples through the country.
Many works by the 6th Kinkozan Sobei and others from Awata were submitted to the World Exposition, and many of them have been awarded prizes.
Awata ware was very popular when Japan first opened its doors to the world, but there was a time when it was avoided due to its old-fashioned design, the decorative Sugita decorative jars, and the flaws that made it difficult to use as tableware due to stains getting into the cracks. It was around this time that research was conducted into creating a material that would not produce cracks.

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Size: Approx. diameter 12 x depth 10.6 x height 7.7 cm
Artist: Hiroto Yasuda (Awatayaki pottery manufacturer Kagiya Yasuda)
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Awata ware pottery manufacturer Kagiya Yasuda
Born in 1962
Graduated from the molding department of Kyoto Prefectural Pottery Vocational Training School in 1988
1989: Completed the Kyoto City Industrial Research Institute Ceramics Specialist Course
2000 Graduated from Kyoto City Industrial Research Institute Ceramics Specialist Course and joined Nishimura Tokusen Studio
In 1991, he won the 13th Kyoto Ware and Kiyomizu Ware Exhibition with his "Blue and White Porcelain Lily Incense Burner."
1993: Invited to exhibit at the "Encounter with Awatayaki" exhibition sponsored by Kyoto City
In 1995, became independent from Nishimura Tokusen Studio
Solo exhibition at Otemachi Gallery, Tokyo, 1997
1998 Tanko Biennale Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition
Selected for "Kirikane-iro Awata Kadaoki 'Vertical, Horizontal, Diagonal'"
In 1999, he donated his work to the tea room at the site of the former Imperial Villa in Numazu City.
First solo exhibition at the Daimaru Department Store Art Gallery, Kyoto
2003 Solo exhibition at Nomura Museum of Art, Kyoto
In 2004, he was appointed by the head priest of Shoren-in Temple, Higashifushimi Jiko.
Solo exhibition at Daimaru Matsuzakaya Art Gallery, Nagoya, 2011
2016 Solo exhibition at Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto
2017 Solo exhibition at the Osaka Daimaru Department Store Shinsaibashi Art Gallery
2018: Second solo exhibition at the Keio Department Store Shinjuku Art Gallery in Tokyo
Other exhibitions held in various locations up to the present
Certified as "Kyoto crafts technology successor" by Kyoto Prefecture
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[Awatayaki Pottery Maker Kagiya Yasuda]
He opened his kiln in the mid-Edo period and is the only potter who continues to make pottery in Awata today.
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Box: Wooden box