Wheel-thrown Mino-ware guinomi attributed to Nakagaki Renji of Shūhō Kiln, with a warm yellow glaze and expressive copper-green, rust-orange, and iron-dark decoration.

Attribution and Description

SAK-017 is a compact, wheel-thrown Japanese guinomi with visible horizontal throwing rings, a neatly trimmed circular foot, and a pale fine-grained stoneware body. Its warm yellow-ochre glaze is animated by freely brushed copper-green, rust-orange, and iron-dark accents. The decoration continues into the interior, where pooled glaze marks interrupt the concentric wheel lines.

The glaze and color vocabulary place the cup within the modern Mino tradition. It is best described as Ki-Seto with Oribe-style decoration rather than as a strict reproduction of classical Ki-Seto. The rust-orange passage on the front is intentional decoration beneath or integrated with the glaze; it is not glaze loss.

The vertical inscription beside the foot appears to read Shūhō. Its placement and the cup’s wheel-thrown construction and painterly Oribe palette correspond with documented work from Shūhō Kiln by Nakagaki Renji. Because glaze partly obscures the incision and no matching tomobako accompanies the cup, the maker should remain qualified as “attributed to” rather than stated as conclusively confirmed.

Broad, spontaneous passages of green and iron color cross the softly yellow ground like an abbreviated landscape. The undecorated reverse preserves the quiet warmth of the glaze, while the interior marks reward the viewer each time the cup is lifted. Its low, comfortable profile and visible throwing rings give the piece an intimate, handmade presence appropriate to sake service or a focused Mino-ware collection.

Small Detail

A small dark-green pool at the center of the well visually anchors the more fluid brushwork descending from the rim.

Suggested Collector Line

A lively modern Mino guinomi in which Ki-Seto warmth and Oribe color meet in a compact, highly tactile form.

Condition

The photographs show no obvious chip, crack, or restoration. Minor glaze irregularities, kiln effects, and variations in the brushed decoration are inherent to the making and firing of the piece.