Strong Color Shade Variations

Each piece has strong individual color shade variations. Affected by glazes and natural firing conditions such as changes in temperature, humidity and other climate elements and also how to receive the fire in the kiln chamber, each piece has own expression. It is really difficult to make the completed ware exactly same in color by firing and glazing even when the same materials are used. 100 pieces show 100 kinds of expressions, as it were.

Strong Color Irregularities

There are strong color irregularities of applying a glaze or slip, which are different from part to part in a piece of ware. For example, some parts are glazed thinly or thickly depending on the shape of the ware. That leads to part-to-part differences in appearance of the clay in a piece of ware.

Glaze or Slip Drips

The glaze or slip may look like dripping. There is unevenness of a glaze or slip when they are applied to ware by hand. There also appear glaze drips or slip drips, which are caused by the glaze or slip flows during firing.

Oven Safe

・Wipe water on the surface of tableware before putting it in the oven. Never soak hot tableware in water or place it on the cold kitchen counter. Avoid rapidly heating frozen foods or putting [the cold tableware just taken out of the refrigerator] in the oven. A rapid change in temperature will lead to “crazing” (chaps) or breakage.

・Never soak hot tableware in water or place it on the cold kitchen counter. Avoid rapidly heating frozen foods or putting [the cold tableware just taken out of the refrigerator] in the microwave. A rapid change in temperature will lead to “crazing” (chaps) or breakage.

・In cleaning, do not use a metal scrubber, etc. to get rid of the burns or strong dirt and so on resulting from cooking, which may damage the surface.

・High heat may change the color of tableware, but there is no problem in terms of use. It will be restored to the old color after cooled.

Dishwasher Safe

As for the products without the "Not Dishwasher Safe" stickers, please make sure to use them keeping the below matters in mind.

※If tableware items collide each other in the dishwasher, they will get broken.

※Most ceramic items absorb water. Even if the surface looks dry, there may still be some water in the tableware, which may cause your tableware to get moldy or smelly. So, please take it out of the dishwasher immediately after use, and dry thoroughly in a place where it can be exposed to the outside air.