Kusakabe-san has 7 kilns on his site. This time we will fire part of an updraft built kiln. The work I threw yesterday is still too wet, but three plates from last year will be fired now.

We put straw on and around the
plate in the back. Straw has a
high silica content which will give a glassy line on the plate.

If you look close you will see the wads underneath the pots.

The closing of the kiln.

The door is pasted with paper clay and the fire starts in the ash box.