Nerikomi

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Nerikomi is an artistic technique for creating ceramic pottery. The name derives from a traditional Japanese technique of creating patterns with colored clay.^[1]

1 History
2 Technique
3 References
4 External links
5 See also

[edit] History

Nerikomi is a contemporary Japanese character. Patterned marbled techniques spread from Egypt to China and through the Romans to the West. It travelled from China to Japan through Korea where there are only recorded 10 pieces which may or may not be dated correctly and may be fakes. Most of the early ceramics in the Stoke on Trent is more than one colour of clay for decorative effect. Bernard Leach and his associates did not introduce it into Europe it was already in Europe way before Mingei. In Japan there are a few pieces from the Momoyama period, and Edo, as well as Mingei and there was an explosion of it from about 1978-1995 due to probably Aida Yusuke's advertising and Matsui Kousei who refers to his as neriage. Before the late 1970s, it was not a description used to describe related kanji Neriage. Yusuke Aida was on a television commercial for Nescafe and it seems to have entered the vocabulary at about that time when his nerikomi coffee cups were available to the first people contacting the advertisers.

It was used in the Tang Dynasty in 7th century China there are at least two Chinese characters to describe variations of this technique (one surface, one structural).^[2]^[3]

[edit] Technique

Slabs of clay are mixed with stains and oxides, stacked, folded, pressed into logs, sliced, and arranged in molds to form a vessel. In this way, the numerous stacked layers appear as fine undulating lines embedded in a surrounding color in the finished vessel.