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Box signed by Tsune Kawai
Showa period
D12cm H11cm
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 lid is decorated with a water chestnut design on the back of the lid. A similar piece is shown in the catalogue of "Kawakatsu Collection: Kawai Kanjiro, The Collection of The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto". The box is written by Tsune Kawai, wife of Kanjiro Kawai.
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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