Ryan Bell wrote several great posts about Heian Tofukuji, read them here: Glazed Pots by Heian Tofukuji 4
Long/short, he was born in 1890, positively mastered ceramic and glaze techniques, using recycled clay and community kilns, and died before his work was recognized for its mastery.
Here is my first foray into Tofukuji collecting, a round, cut-foot oribe glaze, 11cm by 2cm.
His glaze styles were varied, as were the chops he used:
Ever the enabler, Ryan Bell encouraged me to plant it for the show last weekend. So I did…ever so cautiously:
I have been studying bonsai since 1994, in an ever-increasing obsessive fashion. In our last 5 years prior to moving from Iowa to Alabama pursuing a career in the foodservice industry, my bonsai collection was limited to a few varieties that could survive brutal winters outside, or winters under dim light in the dank basement of our humble duplex...my wife puts up with a lot. Including the trailer hitch I put on our brown 1983 Chrysler New Yorker to pull a U-Haul full of trees to Nashville for a 3-month stop along the career path that led us to Alabama. 12 years later, we no longer have the New Yorker; and not a single one of those trees remain on my bench, having given the last holdout to a new club member this summer. I prefer collecting native trees and buying the classical species used in Japan, feeding organic, and reading everything I can get my hands on.
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Great info, was able to get Ryan to identify a couple pots I had purchased locally in the SF bay area, always neat to know the history on something like this especially if you purchase at a bargain price!
Nebari Bonsai 
Beautiful image.
very nice!
Great info, was able to get Ryan to identify a couple pots I had purchased locally in the SF bay area, always neat to know the history on something like this especially if you purchase at a bargain price!