“Shirogane,” a new glaze by contemporary ceramic artist Shohei Ono, draws out the powerful, tactile character inherent in the clay itself, while carrying a certain translucence and freshness—revealing a serene and beautiful expression.

Depending on the angle of light and the surrounding environment, it produces a rich variety of appearances where rusticity and refinement seem to intersect—no two landscapes are ever the same.

Shohei Ono is a rare artist who maintains a practice of extraordinary integrity: he enters the mountains himself to dig and gather clay, and works from the ground up, handling everything from raw material to the very ingredients of his glazes.

In vessels finished in “Shirogane,” born through his original techniques and rigorous firing process, softness and ruggedness coexist—imbuing them with Ono’s signature presence: expansive, powerful, and unmistakably his own.

Shohei Ono’s Shirogane-glazed planters were created specially for Rurbanism.

His planter works are rarely presented even in solo exhibitions, and the number that reaches the market is extremely limited—making them exceptionally scarce.

A weathered ōkanryū cultivated over many years; Ferocactus such as Shinsen-gyoku, bearing beautiful golden spines.

And a tank bromeliad with a powerful, sculptural beauty in its hard, architectural leaves: Hohenbergia leopoldo-horstii.

Different in species and presence, these plants, when set into Shirogane-glazed planters, quietly resonate with the vessel’s translucence and freshness—evoking an even richer sense of living vitality.

Shohei Ono’s planter works—delicate yet undeniably strong, and filled with a sense of life—are currently featured on the Rurbanism online store .