Starting fire is very small to slowly increase the heat, its easy to ramp up the kiln temperature increasable fast.
Kojima san (pictured above in green) was doing the 1am to 9am shift! and had perfect throwing technique! which I tried to capture on camera.
I had the shifts of 4am to 9am, and after some practice got the hang of throwing in the wood just where I wanted it to go instead of hitting the bricks.
To help the wood ash spread throughout the kiln a very long shovel is used.
Looking inside the kiln it is so beautiful and fascinating (the photos don't to it justice) and when the ash piles up it resembles shimmering gold.
A week later the kiln is cool enough (just about) to open
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