Shino was the first white glaze in Japanese ceramics — ground local feldspar laid on thick and fired for days in a wood-burning tunnel kiln at Mino. It comes out milky and opaque, pinholed like citron skin, blushing orange-red where fire reached the rim and the glaze edge, spotted charcoal grey where carbon was trapped.

Because colour depends entirely on where a pot stood in the kiln, the pot is never shown alone. This system pairs a soft, off-axis form on generous empty ground with a square, sparse record card: firing days, kiln position, ash load. Hairline rules, no ornament, wide margins.