銘
Koho Rectangle
美濃- Line
- Kōhō · 光峰
- Finish
- Unglazed · 泥物
- Width
- 13.7 cm · shohin
Authentic Japanese Bonsai Pots · 本物の盆栽鉢
The vessel shapes the tree.
Each pot is chosen by hand from Japan’s kilns — for collectors who know the vessel is half the art. 器は、木の半分である。
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From our eBay storefront, 3 October 2026
一Our Philosophy
The pot is the cloud that carries the tree.
八雲
八雲 — yakumo, “eight clouds” — opens an ancient verse long held to be Japan’s first waka, sung in the old province of Izumo. Our founder lived and studied agriculture there; it was Izumo that taught us to read the bond between tree, soil, and the vessel that holds them.
Today we work from Tokyo, sourcing pots from kilns across Japan — the iron clays of Tokoname, the painted enamels of Kutani — and choosing only vessels worthy of a fine tree. We are not of Izumo, yet its spirit stays in our name: a pot is the ground and sky a tree lives within, the quiet cloud that lifts it. We seek pieces meant to be inherited, and carry them to collectors worldwide.
Read what we look for
間
Ma — the space between
A pot earns its place by what it leaves empty. We choose proportion that gives the tree room to breathe.
用の美
Yō-no-bi — beauty of use
Function is the truest ornament. Drainage, foot, and lip are judged as closely as colour and form.
一鉢
The individual pot — 一鉢ずつ
Each listing describes the individual pot shown. Some are one-off handwork; others come from moulded or repeated lines, and we say which when known.
二The Collection
Featured specimens
銘
Ishida Shoseki Round
茨城- Maker
- Ishida Shōseki · 石田祥石
- Finish
- Underglaze blue · 染付
- Width
- 10 cm · shohin
写真・寸法は掲載中の一鉢についてのものです。 The photographs and dimensions refer to the individual pot shown.
三The Craft
What we look for in every pot.
01
Clay 土
The body may be unglazed clay, stoneware, porcelain or another ceramic body. Colour alone does not establish the material, kiln or age.
02
Form 水
We look at proportion, rim, feet and drainage. Pots may be thrown, slab-built, hand-built or moulded; the method is stated only when it is known.
03
Fire 火
We describe the surface and glaze visible on the individual pot, and name the firing method only when it is documented.
04
Time 時
We look for marks and provenance where they are present, and state age only where the evidence supports it.
“We do not decorate the tree. We give it a place to stand for a hundred years.”
YAKUMO JAPAN · The Collector’s Creed · 八雲
四Journal
One pot, one question, each day
Short daily notes on how to look at a bonsai pot — its form, its glaze or bare clay, and the mark on its foot.
鉢
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Each eBay listing provides photographs and dimensions for the individual pot, with tracked international shipping terms shown for the destination.