Guinomi / Shino / Mino / Tamaoki Yasuo
Shino Guinomi by Tamaoki Yasuo
In Ryoji Kuroda's 1969 book 'Contemporary Chawan' he called Tamaoki Yasuo one of Mino's five great 'hopefuls' who, along with Kato Seizo, Kato Takuo, Kato Kozo, and Suzuki Osamu, would carry Mino into the future. Well, three of this group are Living National Treasures. Unfortunately, Seizo passed from this world too early to see his star rise. Tamaoki (b.1941) has had an impressive career, living up to Kuroda's prediction, and won the Japan Ceramic Society Prize in 1980. His list of exhibitions at leading department store galleries and private galleries is very long indeed. Here is a rather bold Shino guinomi(sake cup) with crimson flashes(hi-iro- 'fire color') unlike I've seen on other Shino wares. A gutsy footring that shows Tamaoki's skill as well as the good tsuchi-aji. The thick, creamy Shino feldspar glaze is very crackled and rich. Perfect condition with a signed box, 6.2cm.tallx 7cm wide at base, signed on base.