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Box wrriten by Koha Kawai(kanjiro’s daughter)
Showa period
D.19cm H.23.5cm
The bamboo grass design is painted on both sides of the flattened jar using the tsutsu-gaki technique on a yellow glazed ground.
Kanjiro Kawai（河井寛次郎）
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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