Anagama
Anagama ( Japanese 穴 窯 , dt. Tunnel kiln ) are lying, single-chamber kilns (mostly built into a slope ) from East Asian antiquity , which are used for firing pottery products.
An anagama is fired with wood. Temperatures of up to 1400 ° C can be reached. Jan Kollwitz writes: “The colors on the ceramics are created by firing. No glazes are applied, but the pieces are exposed to the flames, smoke, embers and fly ash . This creates red and gray, sometimes blue-violet colors. The ashes of the burning wood whirl through the furnace and lay down as fine dust over the ceramics, which at temperatures above 1250 ° C melts with the clay surface to form a glass. This naturally occurring fly ash glaze varies, depending on the location of the vessel in the oven, from a matt ocher-colored tinge to a deep green clear glass flow. "
Individual evidence
- ↑ Werner Steinhaus: Small dictionary on Japanese archeology - Japanese-German (= writings on Japanese archeology I ). epubli, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86931-803-5 , p. 109 .
- ↑ Jan Kollwitz: On the technology of the Anagama furnace ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
