Featured Help Identify Ceramic Vase?

Hello All--Wondering if anyone recognizes this pottery mark... Can't seem to find another example online.

 

The mark looks like some Asian characters. However, looks like a nice piece of studio pottery to me.

 

Nice vase, the glaze looks a bit like 'tea dust glaze'. With those rather wide, squat characters, I wonder if it is Korean.

 

That was my thought too, AJ...

 

Third - the mark looks like it's in Korean. I wouldn't know about the glaze, and those grow feet and move about even if I did.

 

Interesting...thank you all for the insight!

 

Sideways it says JOE.
(Not helpful, I know)

 

It's all very helpful!

 

It's all very helpful!!

 

He hasn't been here for a while, but maybe @Philip Maise can help. Let's see if this tag is the means to get him here

 

"It was made by Asao Takashima of Kyoto Japan. See an older ebay (not sold) listing below. I believe value is much less than this. Listing also said:

"Asao Takashima was born in Kyoto in 1937. Creates works mainly of object firing, and exhibits at the Kyoto Exhibition, Kyoto Crafts and Art Exhibition, etc. After that, he started producing modern crafts and exhibited at the Kyoto Craft Exhibition, the Osaka Design House Exhibition, and the New Craft Exhibition. He has won gold, silver, and bronze awards, and in recent years he has produced flower vases, ornaments, etc. centered on modern crafts."

 

Thank you so much for this...I hate unsolved mysteries

 

It was helpful, because you managed to summon Joe with that comment

 

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