Wood Fired Anagama Kiln

The workshop fee is 645.

Wood fired anagama kiln.

The anagama kiln is an ancient type of pottery kiln brought to japan from china via korea in the 5th century. It was built by a small group on private land starting in 2000. My ceramics are either created on a potters wheel or hand built. An anagama a japanese term meaning cave kiln consists of a firing chamber with a firebox at one.

Anagama wood fired pottery by susan kotulak fired in the okidoki anagama. Japanese inspired pottery to be used in the tea ceremony tea bowls chawan vases for chabana and ikebana mukozuke dishes for japanese cuisine kaiseki resource for food stylists accompanied by shibori and screen printed textiles for the table and wall. They are then wood fired in an anagama kiln. It is a version of the climbing dragon kiln of south china whose further development was also copied for example in breaking up the firing space into a series of chambers in the noborigama kiln.

Since humans first began to understand how fire hardened clay we have been making ceramics both in pits and in wood kilns. A 100 non refundable deposit is required to register. Now with so many fuel options available to the potter wood fired kilns are more of a choice than a necessity.

While wood kiln firing isn t easy the results are incomparable. These types of kilns have been fired traditionally for thousands of years being fired only with wood. The anagama kiln japanese kanji. The anagama kiln is 24 feet long and was built in 1995 after weber s many trips to japan where he worked with artists who fired in this traditional method.