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Box written by Tsune Kawai who was his wife
Showa period
D20.5cm×13cm H20.4cm
This is a work by Kawai Kanjiro, a potter who played a central role in the folk art movement during the Taisho and Showa periods. The mouth is square and the body has a very unique shape. Both sides of the body are painted with a floral design in a graceful brushstroke. Kanjiro's wife, Tsune, wrote the inscription on the box.
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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