In order to talk about pottery, the Japanese found it useful to go so far as to create names for various attributes of a pot. According to e-yakimono.net, the vocabulary that deals with the surface of a pot is known as keshiki.
To some people, certain keshiki may look like mistakes, but to connoisseurs of Japanese ceramics, such imperfections are actually treasured because they make a pot unique, interesting and even beautiful.
Two of the most common keshiki (ones you may see on works created in the MCG studio) are: yubi ato—finger marks that show where the potter held the pot during glazing, and hima—an accidentally unglazed part of the pot where the clay body shows.
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