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Showa - Heisei period
living national treasure
D11cm H11.5cm
”Tsuiji” and ”Shoretsu” were fired by layering patterns with colored porcelain and then covering the surface with clay to scratch the surface and achieve this effect. There is an inscription of "Yasushi" on the high pedestal. Matsui Yasunari was born in Nagano Prefecture and later built a kiln at Gassho-ji Temple in Kasama City, Ibaraki Prefecture. He studied ancient ceramics from Japan, China, and the Korean peninsula. Among them, he encountered the neriage technique, in which patterns are expressed by mixing different colored clay, and pursued this technique for the rest of his life. Through trial and error, he developed new techniques such as ”Shoretsu”, ”Tsuiji”, and ”Seihaku”, and was recognized as a Living National Treasure.
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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