26064 Mori Tougaku Triangular Pottery Box

Height 14.4cm
Width 28.6cm
Depth 25.4cm

After graduating from the Special Art Department of the Faculty of Education at Okayama University, he retired from his job as a junior high school art teacher after three years and began his career as a potter. After building various kilns and firing pottery repeatedly, he decided that it was impossible to unlock the mystery of "the charm of old Bizen" in small kilns, and so he came up with a plan to fire pottery in the large medieval kilns in which old Bizen pottery was fired.
He built a semi-underground, direct-flame climbing kiln (46 meters long) in the mountains of Aioi City, Hyogo Prefecture, and fired it for 53 days from January 8, 1980, firing many Bizen pottery pieces, including large jars for making strings. Shortly after, he moved to Samukaze, Ushimado Town, Oku District, Okayama Prefecture (now Samukaze, Ushimado Town, Setouchi City), where he built the 53-meter-long "Sabukaze Ogama" (Sabukaze Great Kiln), firing works a total of six times in 1986, 1990, 1994, 1999, 2005, and 2011. In 1997, he also began construction of the previously unexplored "Sabukaze New Great Kiln" (85 meters long, 6 meters wide, 3 meters high).
In 2005, he and his apprentices adopted the collaborative work system from the time of the large kiln, when old Bizen ware was produced, and completed the Kanpu New Large Kiln in the summer of 2008. They also successfully completed an empty firing to check the performance of the new kiln.