I feel the appeal of grilled foods is the way they change when grilled.
Perhaps I like the history behind how natural glazes, primitive ash glazes, and gradually, over a period of a thousand or two thousand years, arrived at Song Dynasty celadon.
I like natural glazes and ash glazes too.
Even the iron glaze undergoes various changes, such as brown glaze and black glaze, before arriving at the Jianzhan.
Both Tenmoku and celadon are iron glazes if you call them that, and feldspar glazes if you call them that.
They have many things in common, and it is interesting to note that, although they were produced in different places, they were all perfected during the Northern Song to Southern Song periods.
I believe that celadon and tenmoku are the result of the trial and error and challenges that potters have taken on since ancient times.
When it comes to kiln changes, many people interpret them as something that happens by chance, based on the old view of pottery, but I think this is a big misunderstanding.
I have respect and admiration for the ancient process that has transformed chance into necessity.

- Beautiful standing poses of pottery by Imaizumi Takeshi -
Imaizumi was first attracted to black Raku and black Oribe.
When he was a sophomore at university, he was fascinated by the beauty of the Chinese Song Dynasty Tenmoku and Celadon wares at the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, and while maintaining the basics, he created pottery with his modern sensibility, with smart shapes and beautiful postures.
I am looking forward to my first solo exhibition at Ippodo.