D.9.6cm H.8cm
Eiraku Myōzen 永樂 妙全
1852-1927
She was a Japanese ceramist. She led the Eiraku workshop in Kyoto, becoming its 14th head upon the death of her husband Tokuzen. She was one of women to head a crafts workshop in Japan. At her death she was succeeded by Shozen, a nephew of her husband. In his turn he was succeeded by her adopted son. A presentation set of coffee cups and saucers produced under Myōzen's direction was acquired by the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in 2018. Another work, a mizusashi with bamboo in porcelain, was acquired by the Seattle Art Museum in the same year.
Eiraku Family
Zengoro is one of the head schools of the Kyo yaki (Kyoto style ceramic art). They are designated to the 'doburo yakimono shi' (brazier maker and potter), which is one of the Senke jusshoku (which means "Senke's ten designated craftsmen families," representing the ten highly skilled craftspeople who are the recipients of traditionally transmitted skills within specific families designated to serve the major tea schools [Senke] in Kyoto), and they have produced doburo (a ceramic portable stove for boiling water to make tea) and tea bowls for generations. The current head is the 18th.
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