25745 Mori Togaku (Bizen vase)

Height 33.8cm Diameter 17.0cm

After graduating from the Department of Art and Design, Faculty of Education, Okayama University, he quit his job as a junior high school art teacher after three years and started working on pottery. After building various kilns and firing pottery repeatedly, he decided that it was impossible to solve the mystery of "the charm of Ko-Bizen" in small kilns, so he came up with a plan to fire pottery in the large kilns used in the Middle Ages.
He built a semi-underground direct flame climbing kiln (46 meters long) in the mountains in Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture, and fired the kiln for 53 days from January 8, 1980, firing many Bizen pottery pieces, including large jars for string-making. Immediately after that, he moved to Samukaze, Ushimado Town, Oku District, Okayama Prefecture (now Samukaze, Ushimado Town, Setouchi City), where he built the 53-meter-long "Sabukaze Large Kiln," firing his works a total of six times in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2005, and 2011. In 1997, he also began construction of the "Sabukaze New Large Kiln" (85 meters long, 6 meters wide, 3 meters high), which is said to be the first kiln to be built.
In 2005, he adopted the collaborative system used in the large kiln era when Ko-Bizen ware was produced, and completed the Kanpu New Large Kiln in the summer of 2008. He also successfully completed an empty firing to test the performance of the new kiln.