The second half of our wedding present arrived this week - a sake bottle made by an artist in Shigaraki named Shiho Kanzaki. The bottle had fallen over just naturally in the firing process, creating some beautiful natural glaze along the side of the bottle. Shigaraki pieces are beautifully rustic, and some of them look as if they were grown and dug up from underground. This piece has all of this sparkly, crystallized ash on it - I can't wait to put some delicious atsukan or cold sake in it and use it!