D.14.5cm×10cm H.23.5cm
One of Kanjiro's signature techniques is the "tsutsugaki" technique, which is also used in this work. Kanjiro uses the raised tubular drawing lines as an outer frame and applies various glazes to that frame to create richly colored "tubular drawing glaze" pieces. In this work, too, flowers are vividly depicted with colorful tubular-painting glaze colors emanating from cinnabar, iron glaze, green, and black.
Kanjiro KAWAI
1890 - 1966
Kanjirou Kawai was a Kyoto-based potter within the folk tradition of Japanese and Korean ceramics and a key figure in Mingei (Japanese folk art movement). He was a long-time friend of Shōji Hamada, Soetsu Yanagi, and Bernard Leach with whom he co-founded the Japan Folk Art Association in 1926. He refused all official honors, such as the designation of “Living National Treasures,” He often decorated his works with bold, semiabstract blossom motifs, which he painted freely in under-glaze cobalt blue, iron brown, and copper red.
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