rach 1 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Someone bought me some shigaraki pottery for my birthday and have grown to really love it buying a few more pieces myself. This is my new one, small light inside for a lovely effect. Kawaii deshou? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 The sinks in our house are made from Shigaraki. We've got two big ones set in a big wooden counter as vanities and another one in the toilet. The big ones are 35 or 40cm and the little one 20cm. We bought them in Shigaraki itself which is kind of in between Ikoma and Nagoya. I think it was 40,000 for the three, which is probably cheaper than normal sinks made by Toto. Bizen pottery is probably my favourite though. If we have any money left when our kids are grown up, I might start buying some then. It would only get destroyed at the moment. Link to post Share on other sites
griller 9 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I do love the look of some of that heavy pottery. Heavy prices too, surprised you got those sinks so 'cheap', mr wiggles! How big is that piece rach? Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 I saw some of that in a local gift shop over the weekend. There seems to be lots of 'owl' theme going on! Link to post Share on other sites
DumbStick 13 Posted September 25, 2013 Share Posted September 25, 2013 Like pottery. Link to post Share on other sites
SKI 15 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Yes lots of owls. My neighbour has a load of that stuff starting in the porch with an umbrella pot and other things lined up on the window. I do like it, even though they go a bit over the top. Does stuff have to come from that town to be labelled this? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 You can get the sinks on Rakuten where they are listed at full price but with free postage. In Shigaraki they gave us "50% off" without haggling but god knows what the real price is, especially with building materials. They are all priced in a crazy way with big discounts assumed. The sinks themselves are just big bowls with a plumbing connector in the bottom. They are lovely, of course, but shouldn't be particularly costly to make compared to ordinary donburi. Just for comparison purposes, folks doing up a place for buy to let in the UK may only spend two to three hundred quid for a new bath, washbasin and toilet. That's much bigger stuff for the same kind of money as our three sinks. Anyway, the little one we have is very similar to this We also have the same tap, except without that black thing its sitting on. The other toilet in our house is a narrow room where we could only squeeze in the narrowest Toto wall sink and that cost slightly more online than the combo in the photo above. That's not something I would have assumed without seeing the actual prices. There are a lot of owls in Shigaraki but thousands of tanuki in all different sizes. It looked like they are the star product. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 26, 2013 Author Share Posted September 26, 2013 Oh I like the look of that. Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 26, 2013 Share Posted September 26, 2013 Get yourself over there Rach, it's not that far from you. Neither is Bizen, going the other way from Kobe. Its also close to Hattoji, one of them "International Villa" hostel things they have in Okayama. That ones in an old farmhouse and is really nice. Go before it gets really cold would be my advice. There's also a pottery town whose name escapes me in north east Aichi just off that new bypass highway that links Toyota City to the Chuo. I took my parents to the museum there once when we had some time to kill on the way to the new Nagoya airport. Link to post Share on other sites
big-will 7 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 Love the look of that stuff. Is the place worth a visit? Nice surroundings, or just a place that churns out pottery? Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted September 27, 2013 Share Posted September 27, 2013 I'm sure there'll be a soba shop eager for your custom as well. When we went to Shigaraki, we just did our shopping and left. Our eldest was three and the missus was five months into #2. I can remember it all though because it was on the way back from Christmas with friends. We stayed an extra night in a log cabin on a golf course nearby. It was really nice and well cheap. One night in a pension kind of money. Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted September 28, 2013 Share Posted September 28, 2013 Nice. I don't own any but I love the look of that lot. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 How big is that piece rach? About 45cm I think. Bit and heavy. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Get yourself over there Rach, it's not that far from you. Definitely an idea! Link to post Share on other sites
muikabochi 208 Posted September 29, 2013 Share Posted September 29, 2013 I think I prefer the owls over the tanukis. Link to post Share on other sites
KlingKlang 1 Posted September 30, 2013 Share Posted September 30, 2013 When I first came here I was given something like what rach showed in the first post, smaller version. It is pretty cool, I love the look of this kind of pottery. Just been reading up a bit on Shigaraki. Learn something every day. Link to post Share on other sites
yoroshiku onegai shimasu 2 Posted October 2, 2013 Share Posted October 2, 2013 Been there, worth a look for sure. Lots and lots of temptations if you like pottery, of course!! Link to post Share on other sites
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