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Showa period
living national treasure
D16cm H20.5cm
Kosei Matsui, a ceramic artist from Kasama City, IbarakiPrefecture, active from the Showa to Heisei periods, was recognized as a Living National Treasure in the field of neriage. He created various unique techniques in the field of neriage.
MATSUI Kōsei 松井康成
1927-2003
Designated as a Living National Treasure in 1993, Matsui Kōsei was hugely influential in the revival of neriage (marbleized, colored-clay ware that he perfected, studying numerous examples of ancient Chinese ceramics as a priest at Gessō-ji Temple in Kasama, Ibaraki Prefecture. Matsui far surpassed these historic predecessors by creating abstract and geometric surface patterning by applying to the surface or throwing numerous layered colored clays, often with a rough-hewn texture. His research and intense studies in this difficult technique, culminated in worldwide recognition for his tradition-steeped vessels.
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