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	Bizen travel guide - Wikitravel
		Bizen (備前; [1]) is the eastern part of Okayama prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu.
		Bizen — literally "before (the plain of) Bi" — is an ancient province known for precisely one thing: Bizen-yaki (備前焼), the oldest and most revered form of pottery in Japan.
		Bizen is a sprawling area, but Imbe is easily covered on foot from the train station.
	wikitravel.org /en/Bizen (426 words)

	BIZEN Menu - EY Net Japanese Pottery Primer
		Bizen is an unglazed stoneware usually fired with red pine wood.
		The clay used is also from the Bizen area of Japan (central city is Imbe).
		In the current Bizen scene, there are three potters who stand out in their excellence in instilling the Momoyama spirit and technique in their creations.
	www.e-yakimono.net /guide/html/bizen.html (229 words)

	Hamasien, Nefasit, Debre Bizen - Eritrea
		On the top of Mt. Bizen, that raises 2,700 feet (825 m) above Nefasit is the monastery of Debre Bizen.
		Debre Bizen homes some 60 monks, who chose to live an austere life, and a fluctuating number of students in its religious school.
		It is customary to leave the monks a contribution to aid in the maintenance and reconstruction of the monastery.
	home.planet.nl /~hans.mebrat/eritrea-hamasien.htm (646 words)

	JR Pottery - Traditional Japanese Bizen Pottery
		Learn more about me and how I came to be a bizen potter on the "About Johnny" page.
		Learn about different styles of Japanese and bizen pottery on the "Japanese Pottery" page.
		If you want to buy some of my Japanese bizen pottery, feel free to email me at johnray@jrpottery.com to inquire about prices and availability.
	www.jrpottery.com (169 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Bizen Province
		Bizen's original center was in the modern city of Okayama.
		In the Muromachi period, Bizen was ruled by the Akamatsu clan from Mimasaka, but by the Sengoku period the Urakami clan had become dominant and settled in Okayama city.
		Bizen passed through a variety of hands during the Edo period before being incorporated into the modern prefecture system.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Bizen_Province (200 words)

	Bizen Province - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bizen's original center was in the modern city of Okayama.
		In the Muromachi period, Bizen was ruled by the Akamatsu clan from Mimasaka, but by the Sengoku period the Urakami clan had become dominant and settled in Okayama city.
		Bizen passed through a variety of hands during the Edo period before being incorporated into the modern prefecture system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bizen_Province (177 words)

	Bizen, Okayama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bizen was also an old province of Japan.
		Map showing location of Bizen in Okayama Prefecture (as of 2006).
		Bizen (備前市; -shi) is a city located in Okayama, Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bizen (97 words)

	Welcome Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The naked bowls of Bizen present a feeling of a closeness to nature, so important in the tea ceremony.
		For centuries the Bizen area around Okayama in western Japan was a pottery centre.
		Bizen of the early Muromachi period has a rough surface but without wheel grooves.
	www.angelfire.com /pe/terdevries/chawan/bizen.html (223 words)

	Bizen pottery BIZEN GALLERY AOYAMA JAPAN
		Bizen Gallery Aoyama located in Tokyo is a gallery specializing in contemporary Bizen pottery.
		You can purchase Bizen works on this website.
		Bizen Gallery Aoyama 5-16-3 2F Minami Aoyama Minato-ku Tokyo JAPAN 107-0062
	www.bizenpottery.com /bizen-eshopping.html (97 words)

	Keis Kitchen News Archive Bizen Pottery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bizen is chunky, warm, earthy pottery from Okayama Prefecture (next to Hiroshima Prefecture) with a history dating back to the 12th century.
		Bizen is unglazed and wood fired at high temperatures resulting in a natural and unpretentious finish, making it perhaps the most rustic yet exquisite of all the ancient pottery forms in Japan.
		As such, Bizen is considered to be the embodiment of the quintessentially Japanese aesthetic-wabi-sabi-the beauty of the humble, unconventional and the imperfect.
	www.keiskitchen.com.au /news-views/index.jsp?a=1144208790 (337 words)

	Berkshires Official Travel Planner-Western Massachusetts-Berkshire County Vacations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In Bizen's main space, you can sit at the sake lounge, in a tatami booth, or at the sushi bar if you prefer these options to a standard table.
		After all, Bizen is named for the region of Japan where Marcus studied the art and craft of its namesake pottery.
		Nor is Marcus the restaurant's only multi-tasker; outside of Bizen's kitchen, chef Saturo Sato is known as Sensei Sato of the Shobu Aikido of the Berkshires, a 5th dan Aikido teacher.
	www.berkshires.org /story3.php?f_id=161 (737 words)

	Ujiie-Yusa
		The Ukita of Bizen Province were descended from Kojima Takanori, who was himself descended from the venerable Miyake family of Bizen Province.
		By this point he was the most powerful lord in Bizen and had openly defied the Urakami in 1575, fighting a string of engagements with their retainers that year.
		Shigenari was from Shinano province and served Takeda Shingen at the battles at Kawanakajima and the Siege of Minowa (1566).
	www.samurai-archives.com /dictionary/uy.html (4949 words)

	Bizen-yaki - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bizen is named after the village of Imbe in Okayama prefecture, formerly known as Bizen province.
		Bizen is one of the six remaining kilns of medieval Japan.
		Bizen clay bodies have a high iron content, and traditionally, much organic matter that is unreceptive to glazing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bizen-yaki (232 words)

	BerkshireMenu.com: Bizen in Great Barrington Massachusetts, Berkshire County
		Bizen in Great Barrington Massachusetts, Berkshire County: OCRed text of previous image (for searches): we ze n op T rks of art they are the source of health, happiness and peace they make up the fabric from which life itself is woven.
		What makes Bizen, Bizen These are some of the products that we pledge to your health fiZVtT & V While located in the frigid Northeast, Bizen was founded with at least one clear obsession and dream From avocados to zucchini, to be able to offer our patrons a cuisine that contained 100 organic produce.
		Bizen in Great Barrington Massachusetts, Berkshire County: OCRed text of previous image (for searches): BtZBN NOZO& G It is a multichambered climbing kiln, 43 feet long, eight feet wide, housed beneath its own shed and named after the Japanese town of its origin, where ungiazed ware called yakishime has been produced for over 1,000 years.
	www.berkshiremenu.com /rest.php?id=15 (1347 words)

	CMC Sake and Wine Merchants - HOME
		Bizen Junmai (Pure-Rice) Ginjo Premium Sake is brewed by a respected Japanese Sake brewery located in Akaiwa region of Okayama Prefecture.
		Bizen Junmai (Pure-Rice) Ginjo Premium Sake is "all natural" and made from the finest rice and the select rice-yeast.
		Bizen Jumai (Pure-Rice) Ginjo Premium Sake is excellent with Chicken, Quail and Fish served with light Herbal Sauce.
	www.cmc-sake-wine.com /bizen.html (288 words)

	He's created an environment for sushi - The Boston Globe
		Bizen's dominance led Marcus to double its size in 1999, when he added a sake bar and robata grill menu.
		As Marcus sips tea from a ceramic mug, his robe sleeves slip back to reveal powerful forearms, the result of years of making pottery, which is how he earned his living for two decades before opening the restaurant.
		He spent four years as a potter's apprentice when he was in his 20s, working in the Japanese region called Bizen, where a unique form of pottery was developed more than 1,000 years ago.
	www.boston.com /ae/food/articles/2004/04/28/hes_created_an_environment_for_sushi?mode=PF (1043 words)

	Fine Japanese BIZEN Hotei, Inscribed.
		Bizen stoneware is not glazed but is so highly fired that a vitreous self-glaze forms on the surface.
		This thin glaze is usually a little uneven in colour and often exhibits small particles of fuel ash from the firing, all this adding greatly to the charm of the piece.
		Bizen is notoriously difficult to date, I can see no reason for this example not to be other than 19th century, and it may well be earlier.
	www.trocadero.com /paha/items/112079/item112079store.html (190 words)

	Glossary: Bizen potteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Japanese center at Imbe in the Bizen province (modern Okayama Prefecture) - one of the "six old kilns" of Japan, where in the 12th-14th centuries many of the technical advances in Japanese ceramics were made.
		Bizen wares were one of the first types of Japanese pottery used for the tea ceremony; wares that became increasingly important from the 16th century.
		In the 17th and 18th centuries a smooth ware imitating Chinese Yixing stoneware was made.
	www.gotheborg.com /glossary/data/bizen.shtml (75 words)

	The development of Bizen Choji - article by Craig Bird - Sword Forum International
		It is with this growth, especially in Bizen province, that the choji hamon came close to dominating the late Heian and Kamakura Jidai (1185-1336).This article will concern itself with the growth of the Bizen choji-ha, as no other school and hamon have ever been so nearly synonymous as to be considered a trademark.
		Blades of the Kamakura Ichimonji school are composed of exuberant choji-midare in thick nioi sprinkled with ko-nie.
		The Bizen work of this period is best represented by koshihiraki-midare, togariba-gokoro and a somewhat distinct habuchi.
	forums.swordforum.com /showthread.php?s=18fb018c94c35e7d2a3c226dddfe8e6d&threadid=19550&goto=nextnewest (2215 words)

	Pottery Styles
		Developed in the 12th century, Bizen is an unglazed stoneware usually fired with red pine wood.
		Bizen became especially popular starting the late Muromachi period (1333-1573), through the Momoyama period (1573-1603), up to the begining of the Edo period (1603-1867).
		Like its close cousin Bizen, Shigaraki wares were originally daily utensils such as tsubo (jars), kame (wide-mouthed jars) and suribachi (grinding bowls).
	www.tea-circle.com /styles.html (647 words)

	Bizen Tadamitsu
		REMARKS: The Tadamitsu line of Bizen sword smiths can be numbered among the best of their kind who worked during the late Koto period.
		His blades were sturdy, graceful in shape and form, and of a [shortened] length that made them easier to handle with just one hand as the changing styles of fighting would soon dictate.
		He was known for his finely worked and evenly made mokume jitetsu, which has been judged over time to be the best of all the Sue-koto Bizen smiths.
	www.ncjsc.org /article_bizen_tadamitsu.htm (805 words)

	Bizen Kilns
		By nature, Bizen pottery becomes smooth to the touch and develops a luster only after years of use, yet Yamamoto's works emerge from the kiln displaying these characteristics.
		While most Bizen ceramic artists have their kilns in and around the city of Bizen, Kaneshige's studio is nestled in the quiet mountains outside Okayama City.
		Bizen's largest gallery features an array of works by potters ranging from young ceramic artists to Important Cultural Properties.
	int.kateigaho.com /win05/kilns-bizen.html (739 words)

	Ukita Naoie (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Urakami, who ruled from the mountain castle Tenjinyama, shared Bizen with the Matsuda, who were powerful in the western half of the province.
		An alliance was signed and the Môri made no effort to take Bizen, although this friendship did place Naoie as one of the first lines of defense against Oda Nobunaga.
		He sent his son Hideie as a hostage to Hideyoshi and in return was confirmed as lord of Bizen, as well as a fair amount of Mimasaka.
	www.samurai-archives.com /naoie.html (542 words)

	Bizen \| Berkshires Restaurants \| Fodor's Online Travel Guide
		Contrary to other's opinions, Bizen restaurant and sushi bar is a gem, and the all around best Japanese resturant in the north east.
		Bizen's comprehensive menu has something for everyone (including vegatarians!) and the quality of the fish is unsurpassed by any other sushi restaurent.
		Bizen would be a first class sushi restaurant in New York City or Los Angeles.
	www.fodors.com /miniguides/mgresults.cfm?destination=berkshires@608&cur_section=din&property_id=414812 (384 words)

	l'Oreal Art&Science
		This study was conducted by 9 scholars from 4 universities and 1 research organization, with the aims of scientifically exploring the "Hidasuki" (a reddish pattern which was believed to have been created by mere chance), a mystery on Bizen stoneware, and establishing control technology based upon the principals discovered in their exploration.
		The members of the team primarily come from 2 universities in Okayama, the birthplace of Bizen stoneware, although none of them are potters.
		It is indeed astonishing that their study has cast light on the wondrous charm of the red color, which had been believed to have been only a chance phenomenon.
	www.loreal.com /_en/_ww/loreal-art-science/2005winners.aspx (1210 words)

	The Sushi World Guide: na -> USA/Massachusetts -> Great Barrington
		I recently visited Bizen and I was astonished by the quality of the sushi.
		The service was good (the food arrived 10 minutes after I ordered) and the atmosphere in Bizen is un-comparable to any Japaneese rusturant I've ever been to in my life.
		There Sushi bar is very small with only 5 places, most of the dinners were at tables.I ordered the LOBSTER TEMPURA ROLL (lobster;scallion;inside/out with avocado and caviar) and two pieces of NUI with egg on the sushi;and Shiro hade just gotten in fresh Scallop which I had mixed with a hot special sauce.
	www.sushi.infogate.de /rest/na_usa_massachusetts_greatbarrington.htm (591 words)

	Berkshire Eagle Online - Great Barrington: Bizen
		Bizen, the always-crowded Japanese restaurant at 17 Railroad St., has spread its wings, so to speak, with a beautiful new space next door.
		His pottery, in the unglazed Bizen style, is an essential part of the dining experience at his restaurant.
		Be sure you ask for the ones that have the well under the table for your feet, unless you have studied yoga long enough to endure a two-hour meal in the lotus position.
	www.berkshireeagle.com /dining/ci_2908043 (1021 words)

	Bizen Morimitsu
		Bizen Osafune Shuri no Suke Morimitsu is one of the famous smiths of the Oei period of the early Muromachi, known as the Oei San Mitsu.
		The subsequent appearance of the Oei San Mitsu (Morimitsu in particular) is significant in reversing this decline bringing the Bizen tradition back to the fore.
		The two smiths Yasumitsu and Morimitsu are known to have worked together on pieces they have jointly signed, and these two smiths are recognized as O-wazamono, for a very great degree of sharpness on their works.
	www.nihonto.ca /morimitsu (788 words)

	Oriental China - Bizen or Imbe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		He is standing on a wind-bag with his dress open to his waist, and his laugh is typical of the wonderful facial expression often to be found in Oriental figures.
		The pottery of Bizen was made at a very early date, but the early specimens were of a coarse, gritty red paste with no glaze, and only common articles were made.
		One other peculiarity of all Bizen is that the glaze is absorbed into the paste ; this is said to be due to continued firing.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles07/oc-49.shtml (333 words)

	Japanese ceramics in Sevres - Musee national de Ceramique, Sevres, France Magazine Antiques - Find Articles
		The town of Bizen, near Okayama on Japan's main island, was established in the seventh century by Emperor Tenmu (r.
		The style of early Bizen ceramics is characterized by strong and simple shapes made of brick-red, unglazed stoneware.
		In the eighteenth century Bizen was overshadowed by the potteries at Kyoto and grim, but in the present century Bizen ceramics have enjoyed something of a renaissance.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1026/is_n3_v152/ai_20050934 (361 words)

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