Original Box
Taiho - Showa
D17cm H17cm
The black glaze is poured over a light blue ground. It is also found in Tamba ware. The glaze is poured over the surface with a ladle to create the design. Kanjiro must have used this type of design as a reference. It has ears on the shoulders.
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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