[Ohi Ware]
One kind of Raku ware pottery.
The history of Ohi ware had began in 1666 when a potter Chozaemon HAJI moved to Kanazawa from Kyoto to follow a tea master Soshitsu SEN who was invited by Tsunanori MAEDA, the load of the Kaga domain. He established a kiln in Ohi-cho in Kanazawa and created tea utensils which were designed by Soshitsu SEN with clay from Mt. Kasuda in suburb of Kanazawa.
The quality of Ohi ware is quite similar to Rakuyaki and uses orange yellow glazes, light yellow glazes or light green glazes on white glazes. They has been creating such as incense containers, Matcha tea bowls and ornaments for tea rooms and they has been favored by tea masters.
[Choraku OHI] (1902-1991)
A Ohi ware potter in Kanazawa city, Ishikawa prefecture.
Ohi ware was established by Chozaemon Ohi in the Edo period, and the kiln had been handed down for generations who were direct descendant of Chozaeomn I. However Ohi ware came to an end at Chozaemon VII.
Choraku Ohi, a direct descendant of Chozaemon I, is a potter who revived Ohi ware in the Taisho period.
(Rikichi Nara who was a discipline and a cousin of Chozaemon VII, succeeded Ohi ware kiln after Chozaemon VII and succeeded the name “Chozaemon”.)