[Iroe (polychrome pottery)]
A technique of decorating ceramics.
Iroe refers to painting motifs or patterns using lead-based red, yellow and green color glazes on the surface of glazed and fired earthenwares, porcelains, and firing them again at a lower temperature (around 800 degrees C) so the colored glaze melts onto the underglaze.
Arita ware is one of the representative iroe ceramics in Japan.

[Seiganji Kiln]
A Kyoyaki ware kiln in Gojo, Kyoto.
Kikujiro Sugita established the Seiganji Gama by permission of the Seiganji family who was formerly a Count.
After Kikujiro, the second generation Ryusai, the third generation Shohei and the fourth generation Shohei has been succeeded the kiln.
-Fourth generation: Shohei Sugita (1942-)
Born in Kyoto. After his graduation from Kyoto Junior Colledge of Arts, he studied pottery under the 3rd generation Shohei and Kakunyu, the 14th generation of Raku family in 1965. He also learned Tea ceremony under Soya Kanazawa at Urasenke in 1977. He succeeded the 4th generation master of Seiganji Gama in 1999.
[Shohei SUGITA]
A Japanese potter in Kyoto City. The 4th generation (the present generation) head of the Seikanji-gama kiln established in the early Meiji period (1868-1912). A regular member of the Association of Kyoto Traditional Ceramic Artists.
Shohei was born in 1942, in Kyoto and refined his pottery skills under Shohei Sugita, the third generation head of Seikanji-gama kiln, and Kichizaemon Raku the 14th (Kakunyu). In addition, he studied tea ceremony under Soya Kanazawa of Urasenke, then received the seal of Seikanji-gama kiln from Hounsai (the 15th generation master of Omotesenke) and Kichizaemon the 14th.
Succeeding the tradition of graceful Kyo ware, Shohei produces elegant and gorgeous tea utensils decollated with various motifs of seasonal flowers, plants and animals.