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You describe it
What you are after, roughly what you want to spend, and whether there is a date it matters by. Vague is fine — “a clay bell for the year my daughter was born” is enough to start.
Tell us what you are after. We live in the country where these things are, and we will go and look for it.
What you are after, roughly what you want to spend, and whether there is a date it matters by. Vague is fine — “a clay bell for the year my daughter was born” is enough to start.
Morning markets, dealers we know, auction houses, and families clearing an old house. Sometimes the thing turns up the same week. Sometimes it takes months. Sometimes it never turns up at all.
Photographs in daylight, measurements, condition described plainly including the chips, and what it would cost delivered to your door. If it is not right, you say so and that is the end of it.
If we do not think we can find it, we will tell you that — rather than take the request and go quiet.
Everything written on this site was written by the person who would be doing the looking. The account of why Bizen refuses glaze, or why Tsugaru women stitched white cotton into indigo hemp, is not copy — it is what we know, and it is how we tell a good piece from a decorated one.
We are in Fukuoka, which is the easiest place in Japan to find old things coming out of houses. We read the box, the signature and the paper wrapper, and those three usually decide what a piece really is.
A real person in Fukuoka reads this, usually within a day or two. No obligation to buy anything.