Yoshizo Asami IV Nodate Firefly Chawan #2 large vintage plate They are generally made of

They are generally made of bamboo and shaped like half a cylinder

The lid is the tomo-buta type

but now he produces a range of copper furnaces using various casting methods and techniques

The interior of Daibutsu bowls are decorated with the kanji ‘dai’

and it is a pattern created by attaching leaves directly to the glaze prior to firing

Yoshizo Asami IV Nodate Firefly Chawan #2 large vintage plate They are generally made of*SHIPPING OPTIONS VARY DEPENDING ON THE DESTINATION, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE END OF THIS LISTING FOR MORE DETAILS. This listing is for a SMALL nodate size chawan made by Yoshizo Asami IV. It is wheel thrown and decorated with hotaru, or fireflies as they are known in English. A popular pastime during the rainy season is to go hotaru gari, which means hunting for fireflies. Fireflies inhabit small streams and rice fields, and they have appeared in