Vase / Bizen / Isezaki Yozan
Square Bizen Vase by Isezaki Yozan
Isezaki Yozan (1902-1961) was one of Bizen's greatest 20th century saikumono-sculptor potters. In Taisho 8 (1919) he entered the famous saikumono Bizen workshop of Korakuen (Kimura Chojiro) before establishing his own kiln in Showa 8 (1933). He was designated an Okayama Prefectural Intangible Cultural Property in Showa 29 (1954); other Bizen potters designated with him that year included Kaneshige Toyo and Fujiwara Kei, both were to become Living National Treasures. Yozan's two sons are current Living National Treasure Isezaki Jun and his older brother Okayama Prefectural Intangible Cultural Property Mitsuru; the Isezaki family is one of Bizen's most famous families. This square Yozan vase is very shibui, very deceiving in it's simple appearance, for it has a great depth of spirit and will blossom with flowers and also when water is sprayed on the surface. The front has two ghostly botamochi roundels while the remaining three sides are all a light ash-dusted bluish-gray. It's a Zen-Tea vessel for the ages. In perfect condition with a signed box, signed on base, 22.2cm.tall and 9cm.wide, from a private Tokyo chadogu collection.
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