Just as there are no two leaves in the world. The same goes for Shino Ware.
Each Shino yaki has its own unique charm, rough, simple, natural characteristics are very in line with the spirit of the tea ceremony, so Shino yaki is also slowly becoming popular.
In the summer of 2010, Shuozi took the college entrance examination to the Art Design Department of Jingdezhen Ceramics Institute, and when he first came to Jingdezhen, he opened a pottery studio with several classmates while studying.
Some of the other students learned to draw, some learned to design, and Shuozi found herself more interested in pottery utensils, and set up her own pottery studio in the same year.
At first, he didn't know his own direction while learning and doing, but by chance, Li Shuo saw Shino Yaki, and this encounter gave him a direction for his own creation, Shino Tao.
Known as the most tasteful tea vessel in Japan, it flourished during the Momoyama period in the late 16th and early 17th centuries.
At that time, in order to imitate the Tianmu tea bowl of the Southern Song Dynasty in China, Japan developed a white glaze such as "Shino glaze".
Its warm, feminine, and minimalist atmosphere is extremely suitable for the beauty required by the Japanese tea ceremony, so Shino pottery was once popular in Japan.
Originated in China, carried forward in Japan, after several turns, and now Shino pottery has once again circulated back to China, it can be said that Shino pottery has completed a soul journey to trace its roots.
Japan can do so well what china imported, why we china did not do a good inheritance, Li Shuo secretly determined to make our oriental aesthetic Shino ware, after thousands of times of real burning, still did not achieve good results.
Later, Shuozi flipped through a large number of books and chatted with the old craftsmen in Jingdezhen to learn from the experience, and finally Shuozi decided to start screening from the source, perhaps there was a definite number in the dark.
Shuozi found in the home township flat to add the material to the glaze, the mud material is made of old rock mud milled by his own hand, the old rock mud is deposited in the bottom for many years of rock, the deposition of this rock is very suitable for tea utensils, it is fired by high temperature, especially with the combination of raw ore jade agate glaze, burned out that is, fat and has a simple and natural feeling.
Shuozi has always insisted on hand-making, from raw materials to glaze and then to the carving of the final model, the old rock mud material is milled and fermented by soaking and fermenting through the mountain spring water to make the raw materials of the Pushi Yaki Shino Cup, ensuring that it is fully handmade, and each Shino cup has traces of handprints on it.
Shuozi felt that Chinese Shino should be more windy, and the persistence of handicraft was the most important.
On the road of making Shino, Shuozi heard a lot of questions from others that they said that they were no longer doing handicrafts, but Shuozi still insisted on handicrafts without forgetting her original intentions.
Kung Fu pays off, after 5 years of hard work in 2015 fired the first white jade Shino, this success gave Shuozi a lot of encouragement, the beauty of white jade Shino, is its shape is very much like an irregular stone, but this stone is like a piece of jade like a white body, the whole body is open to western slices, use it to drink tea has a feeling of kissing with the cup, very moist, the opening of the cup body can also be raised, and the Raised Shino Cup is more interesting.
It only takes a moment to meet someone, and falling in love with something is often a lifetime. Some dreams can be adhered to from a young age, the difference is that some people are consumed by reality and are forced to go with the flow, while some people choose to let go of their dreams.
Shuozi said that it is very similar to the town of Jade Carving in her hometown, full of craftsman feelings, and many dreamers from all over the country come to Jingdezhen to do handicrafts to feel the slow pace of life.
The experience is always very tortuous and unforgettable, 8 years of time Shuozi in Shino's road to do persistence and innovation, as a new era we not only have to inherit the traditional craftsmanship, but also to achieve innovation and development.
丨Soko (Owner ID: 朔子), founder of Park Seokyaki