Sennin (Mt. Hermit) Mouse Kogo by Takiguchi Kazuo
The story goes like this: desires for riches and material wealth have bogged down our souls and limited our potential, we have become slaves to the almighty dollar, we attempt to calculate life and the vast unknown universe. Yet, some, like this sennin-mountain-hermit-monk-wandering poet (mouse) ... More
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Ao-Bizen Chaire by Fujiwara Rakuzan III
The eldest son of Fujiwara Rakuzan II, Fujiwara Rakuzan III (1943-,given name Ken) is valiantly continuing where his father (an Okayama Prefecture Intangible Cultural Property) and grandfather have left behind: a legacy of Enyu (salt-glazed) Ao-Bizen (blue Bizen) that none have attempted before R... More
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Bizen Rectangular Vase by Isezaki Koichiro
Isezaki Koichiro (1974- ) is the first son of new Living National Treasure Isezaki Jun, and is one of the up-and-coming stars of the Isezaki family. Isezaki Yozan, Koichiro's grandfather and the father of LNT Jun and Okayama Prefecture Intangible Cultural Property Mitsuru, was of the first genera... More
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Metavoid by Akiyama Yo
Akiyama Yo (1953- ) is widely considered to be one of the greatest conceptual ceramic artists living today, following in the grand tradition of extremely influential Kyoto avand-garde artists Yagi Kazuo and his artistic group Sodeisha (Suzuki Osamu, Yamada Hikaru, Kumakura Junkichi amongst others... More
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Hagi Mizusashi by Miwa Kyusetsu X
Miwa Kyusetsu X (1895-1981), later known as Kyuwa, was the first Living National Treasure of Hagi -the second was his younger brother Miwa Kyusetsu XI (the present-day Jusetsu). Quite simply, he did what LNT Kaneshige Toyo did for Bizen, or what LNT Nakazato Muan did for Karatsu. He is a legendar... More
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Neriage Bokuryu Chawan by Ueda Tsuneji
Great mingei potter Ueda Tsuneji (1914-1987) was master of the Kinozara-yama kiln in Kyoto which he opened in 1936. An apprentice of Kawai Kanjiro, Ueda studied the difficult mosaic-marbled style known as neriage or nerikomi with the great Kawai Kanjiro who reinvented this Chinese T'ang dynasty s... More
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Celadon Chawan by Miura Koheiji
A classic celadon chawan by Living National Treasure Miura Koheji. It's 7.5cm tall, 14cm wide, comes with a signed box, a second large lacquer box, in perfect condition. More
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Oribe Plate by Teshigahara Hiroshi
Teshigahara Hiroshi (1927-2001) was the son of the founder of the Sogetsu school of Kado, or the Way of Flower Art, Teshigahara Sofu. Sofu had an enormous impact on the modernization of Flower Art in the 20th century. His son Hiroshi, who inherited the title of the 3rd head of the Sogetsu School ... More
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White Kotsubo by Funaki Michitada
Highly influential and one of the biggest figures of the Mingei Movement, deeply associated with Bernard Leach, and with works heavily represented in all museums focusing on Mingei, here is a white-glazed kotsubo (small tsubo/jar with lid) by Funaki Michitada (1900-1963), the father of Funaki Ken... More
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Edo Period Seto Mugiwarade Guinomi
The Mugiwarade (literally meaning barley straw style) style was extremely popular during the later Edo Period (1603-1868), especially upon tea bowls. Commonly associated with alternating parallel lines of gosu (cobalt blue glaze) and tetsuyu (iron glaze), the style was made in large quantities by... More
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