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Seigan Yamane
Below are examples of his work currently available.
Hiissen Hagi Chawan with signed wooden box. Height: 10.0cm (3.9”) Diameter: 14.0 by 15.0cm (5.5” by 5.9”) Price: £175	Seigan blue yunomi with signed box. Height: 8.8cm (3.5”) Diameter: 8.6cm (3.4”) Price: £65
Light blue Hagi Chawan. Height: 8.9cm (3.5”) Diameter: 12.2cm (4.8”) Price: £50	More examples of Japanese pottery can be viewed on our sister site by clicking on the link below: - www.japanese-pots.com
Seigan Yamane, who was born in 1952, is a well-known potter of Hagi-yaki, which is regarded as the highest prized of teaware next to Raku in Japan. Amongst his peers, in and around Hagi City in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Yamane is known and respected for his blue glaze, which is known as Seigan blue. Besides his quest for the perfect abysmal blue, Yamane makes work in other styles, including the Demon or Oni-Hagi glaze that is perhaps the signature style of Hagi-yaki. He is self taught and works out of the Kousaian Kiln, which he opened in 1987. It is said that Yamane gets up at 5 o’clock every morning in order to climb a nearby mountain to watch the sunrise and then begins potting by 8 o’clock. He continues with this throughout the day until stopping in mid-evening to eat. He says that it is the whole creative process rather than just the end product that he finds fulfilling. Besides being a potter Yamane is also a master of karate. Ten chawan and yunomis by Yamane were included in the Harlequin Gallery “Teabowl” exhibition during March 2005 and others were shown in a similar exhibition a year later.
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