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An incredible O-buri (large) Tea bowl by Shino legend Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Manyosai Chawan. The pinks in this bowl are unbelievable, divided by flowing olive colors. It is definitely top shelf, a museum quality piece. It is 13.5 cm (5-1/2 inches) diameter, 9 cm (3-1/2 inches tall and in perfect condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.

A massive stone-like sculptural vessel by Hagi legend Kaneta Masanao enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi Hai-yu Kuri-nuki Kaki. It is 49 x 22.5 x 31 cm (19-1/2 x 9 x 12 inches) and is in perfect condition weighing 14 kg (roughly 31 pounds) excluding the wooden box.
Kaneta Masanao is certainly one of Hagi’s most well-known and easily identifiable names. Born the first son of Kaneta Sanzaemon, the 7th generation of a family of traditional Hagi potters in 1953, he graduated the Tokyo University of Education Sculptural Art department in 1977. For the following 3 years he exhibited sculptures with the Kokuga-ten Exhibition while attending advanced education at Tsukuba University before returning to work under his father in Hagi in 1979. Although an eighth-generation potter inheriting an overtly conservative tradition, he has transcended limitation, and was one of the first to begin carrying Hagi into the 21st century. His work evokes a distinct tension between both function and form, technique and tradition. He began exhibition with the National Ceramics Exhibition (Nihon Togeiten) and National Traditional Crafts Exhibition (Nihon Dento Kogei ten) in 1981, and has been much awarded at both venues. His first international exhibition was held in New York in 1995. He was awarded the Yamaguchi Prefectural Order of Cultural Merit in 2004, and succeeded as head of the family kiln the following year. His pieces are in the collection of the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Modern Ceramics in Gifu, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum and Museum of Modern Art, the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, the Brooklyn Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the Museum of Art in Philadelphia among others.

A tall cylinder with one flattened wing extending by Fukami Sueharu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seihakuji To-tsutsu, Kaze. It is 32 cm (12-3/4 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Fukami Sueharu is synonymous with seihakuji celadon. He has been displayed numerous times at the prestigious Nitten, Nihon Togei Ten (National Japanese Ceramic Exhibition) and Nihon Gendai Kogei Ten (National Japanese Modern Crafts Exhibition) among others. He is held in the Yale University Museum among others. For more information on this artist a quick web-search, or a look at the article highlighting his life in the March 2005 edition of Orientations Magazine will be enlightening. The list of museums holding his work is, in fact, much to long for this page, but includes the National Museums of Modern Art, Tokyo /Kyoto / and Osaka, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Philadelphia St. Louis, Portland, Chicago, Minneapolis, Smithsonian, British Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum, Musée national de céramique, Sèvres, Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf and the National Gallery of Australia among many others.

Sweeping arcs filled with liquified green ash cross this large flat platter by Murakoshi Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hai-yu Shinonome Sara. Shinonome is written East Cloud, and is a poetic term for Dawn, or clouds wavering in the early light of Dawn. Here he has brought the rim out to a razors edge, no easy feat for this rough clay. The vessel is 31 cm (over 12 inches) diameter and in perfect condition. We have the only two the artist ever made, and he said they were so difficult he will not make them again.
Murakoshi Takuma is one of those enigmas who simply lives to work with clay. He does not seek to make a living through pottery, but through his primal approach has earned a following which keeps his work in high demand. He was born in Aichi prefecture in 1954 and began his stroll down the pottery path in 1980 under the tutelage of Kyoto potter Umehara Takehira. Favoring very rough Shigaraki glaze, he established his own kiln in 1997 in the Kiyomizu pottery district of Kyoto, then moved to Nagaoka in 2002. Although eschewing the world of competitive exhibitions, he has been picked up by many of Japan’s preeminent galleries, including private exhibitions at the prestigious Kuroda Toen of Tokyo’s Ginza District

A long porcelain sculpture by Yagi Akira retaining the original wooden stand enclosed in the original signed box titled Jiken Vestage 92-7. The artist has formed it in the shape of an ancient relic, then covered the flat front side in orange-red lacquer which has been buffed through reveling the white clay beneath. It is 9.5 x 2 x 75 cm (4 x 1 x 28-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition. Signed box original wooden stand.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum. Works by the artist are held in the British Museum, Victoria Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian and Tokyo Museum of Modern Art among many others. He was also the recipient of the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) award in 1998, one in a long and prestigious list of awards. For more see “Quiet Clarity, Rin” (1996) or the aforementioned “Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century “(2005) by Joe Earle.

Maple leaf shapes are impressed into the viscous autumn tinged pale glaze covering in thick swaths the organic clay form of this veseel by legendary Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shino Koyo-mon Tsubo. It is 25 cm (10 inches) diameter, 38 cm (15 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.

Not just for alcohol, this is perfect for winter tea, a beautifully formed deep cup covered in tri-colored glaze occasionally revealing the rough clay beneath by Murakoshi Takuma enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Shunju Shochu-nomi. Literally translated Shunju is Spring and Fall, a phrase denoting all the colors of the seasons, and it is the term he has chosen to poetically describe the various colorations of his work. This cup is 12 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm (5 x 4 x 4 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist.
Murakoshi Takuma is one of those enigmas who simply lives to work with clay. He does not seek to make a living through pottery, but through his primal approach has earned a following which keeps his work in high demand. He was born in Aichi prefecture in 1954 and began his stroll down the pottery path in 1980 under the tutelage of Kyoto potter Umehara Takehira. Favoring very rough Shigaraki glaze, he established his own kiln in 1997 in the Kiyomizu pottery district of Kyoto, then moved to Nagaoka in 2002. Although eschewing the world of competitive exhibitions, he has been picked up by many of Japan’s preeminent galleries, including private exhibitions at the prestigious Kuroda Toen of Tokyo’s Ginza District.

One of two incredible Yunomi by Hayashi Shotaro fresh from his kiln this year covered in ridiculously thick Shino glaze enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Rikyu Seishi Shino Gakugata Kodai Yunomi. It is 10 cm (4 inches) diameter, 14 cm (5-1/2 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.

Thick pitted pink-white glaze tinged with burnt orange covers the torm surface of this lovely vase by Shino Legend Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled simply Shino Tsubo. It is rouhgoy 25 cm (10 inches) diameter, 19 cm (7-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.

Rich reds smoke the surface of this incense burner by Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original singed wooden box titled Aka-Shino Koro. The over-thick daubs of white glaze tinged tangerine on the side are a hallmark of this artists work. It is roughly 12.5 cm (5 inches) diameter, 15 cm (6 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.

Golden eddies glimmering with cobalt and jade flow over the dark glazed body of this small koro by Yamamoto Ichiyo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Jun Purachina-sai Ryusui (Pure Platinum Glazed, Flowing Water). The two wings are glazed in platinum. It is 11 cm (4-1/2 inches) tall and in perfect condition.
Yamamoto Ichiyo was born in Nagasaki in 1944. He began his career at an Arita Porcelain ceramic facility in 1969. In 1974 he would spend a year in Taiwan studying porcelain before returning to Japan, where he would establish his own kiln in Imari the following year. He would begin research into platinum glazing in the mid eighties, garnering awards in Paris three years running (1986, ’87, ’88) after which he would move to Takatsuki on the border between Osaka and Kyoto, where he would immerse himself in cultural studies. In 1993 he would move to Hyogo prefecture, then would begin a period where his fame would grow, while his roots in any one place did not, only returning to Imari nearly a decade later in 2001. Since his work has been exhibited throughout Japan and abroad in such places as Valencia, Los Angeles, New York and San Diego.

How much drama can be infused into one piece of pottery, lets try Murakoshi Takuma with this outstanding Tobe (Fly!) vase covered in his signature combination of Shunju glazes. It is 55 x 12.5 x 20 cm (21-1/2 x 5 x 8 inches) and is in excellent condition, directly from the artist this summer. It comes in the original signed wooden box.
Murakoshi Takuma is one of those enigmas who simply lives to work with clay. He does not seek to make a living through pottery, but through his primal approach has earned a following which keeps his work in high demand. He was born in Aichi prefecture in 1954 and began his stroll down the pottery path in 1980 under the tutelage of Kyoto potter Umehara Takehira. Favoring very rough Shigaraki glaze, he established his own kiln in 1997 in the Kiyomizu pottery district of Kyoto, then moved to Nagaoka in 2002. Although eschewing the world of competitive exhibitions, he has been picked up by many of Japan’s preeminent galleries, including private exhibitions at the prestigious Kuroda Toen of Tokyo’s Ginza District.

A concave cube of white porcelain covered in crackled clear green glaze by Kato Tsubusa enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is 10.5 x 11.5 x 12 cm (4 x 4-1/2 x 5 inches) and in perfect condition, directly from the artist this summer.
Kato Tsubusa was born in Tajimi city, the home of Shino, in 1962, graduating the municipal Pottery Design and Technical Center in 1979. From then to 1983 he worked as a decorator at the Otai Kiln moving out on his own in 1984. In 2007 he was selected for the Paramita Museum Ceramic Exhibition, and established his current ki;n in 2009. 2013 was an auspicious year, with him being awarded the 7th Enku Taishoten and the Japan Ceramic Society Award. He has been displayed at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, The Chunichi Kokusai Togei Ten (Chunichi International Ceramics Exhibition) and The Asahi Togei Ten as well as private exhibitions overseas (New York among others). Work by him is held in the Aichi Ceramics Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The Brooklyn Museum, The Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, the Ibaraki Ceramic art Museum, the Musee Tomo in Tokyo, the Victoria & Albert Museum among others For more on this important artist see Toh, Volume 85 (1993), which is entirely dedicated to him. Also Quiet Clarity “RIN” (1996), or Fired with passion: Contemporary Ceramics of Japan (2007).

A sculptural pair of exquisite spiraling five-sided celadon lidded bottles by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Seihakuji Mentori Futamono.  Each is 10 cm (4 inches) tall and in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum. Works by the artist are held in the British Museum, Victoria Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian and Tokyo Museum of Modern Art among many others. He was also the recipient of the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) award in 1998, one in a long and prestigious list of awards. For more see “Quiet Clarity, Rin” (1996) or the aforementioned “Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century “(2005) by Joe Earle.

A 15 piece set of concentric dishes in celadon with Negoro red and black lacquered upper surfaces in a celadon tower by Yagi Akira enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Ireko. The container is 18 cm (over 7 inches) tall and is in perfect condition. The largest dish is 4.5 cm (just less than 2 inches) diameter, The smallest dish is 2 mm (1/16th of an inch) and all are in perfect condition, directly from the artist.
Yagi Akira was born in Kyoto in 1955, son of avant-garde Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979) one of the founding members of Sodeisha. Akira was voted one of the 20 most important living artists by Honoho, Japans premier printed ceramic forum. Works by the artist are held in the British Museum, Victoria Albert Museum, Cleveland Art Museum, Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian and Tokyo Museum of Modern Art among many others. He was also the recipient of the Japan Ceramic Society (JCS) award in 1998, one in a long and prestigious list of awards. For more see “Quiet Clarity, Rin” (1996) or the aforementioned “Contemporary Clay, Japanese Ceramics for the New Century “(2005) by Joe Earle.

A perilous crag in matte gray by Sugitani Keizo reminiscent of a scholar stone enclosed. This was the first of a new series he has started in this style. It is 48 cm (19 inches) tall and in perfect condition, directly from the artist in May.The title, "240425Ⅱ," is written at the bottom of the work.
Sugitani Keizo was born in Osaka in 1959. In 1982 he graduated the Ceramic Art Institute of the Tekisui Museum of Art. He has selected for a number of group exhibitions including the International Ceramics Competition Mino and the Asahi Art exhibition, where he has been awarded. He has been exhibited at some of Japans top galleries as well as London, Art Miami, Maastricht, New York, Taipei and Shanghai among others.

Dramatic Rorschach blots of blue splash on the white porcelain surface of this large platter by Kato Tsubusa enclosed in the original signed wooden box. It is roughly 39 cm (15-1/2 inches) diameter, 7.5 cm (3 inches) tall and is in perfect condition, directly from the artist this summer.
Kato Tsubusa was born in Tajimi city, the home of Shino, in 1962, graduating the municipal Pottery Design and Technical Center in 1979. From then to 1983 he worked as a decorator at the Otai Kiln moving out on his own in 1984. In 2007 he was selected for the Paramita Museum Ceramic Exhibition, and established his current ki;n in 2009. 2013 was an auspicious year, with him being awarded the 7th Enku Taishoten and the Japan Ceramic Society Award. He has been displayed at the Tokyo National Museum of Modern Art, The Chunichi Kokusai Togei Ten (Chunichi International Ceramics Exhibition) and The Asahi Togei Ten as well as private exhibitions overseas (New York among others). Work by him is held in the Aichi Ceramics Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, The Brooklyn Museum, The Gifu Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, the Ibaraki Ceramic art Museum, the Musee Tomo in Tokyo, the Victoria & Albert Museum among others For more on this important artist see Toh, Volume 85 (1993), which is entirely dedicated to him. Also Quiet Clarity “RIN” (1996), or Fired with passion: Contemporary Ceramics of Japan (2007).

Awash in color, here is a brilliant vessel of crispy glazed clay by Hayashi Shotaro enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Manyosai Henko. It is 27 x 32 x 36.5 cm (11 x 13 x 14 inches) and in excellent condition.
Hayashi Shotaro (b. 1947) is one of the biggest names in contemporary Mino ceramics. Although initially entering regular employment upon graduating high school, in 1967 he returned to Toki city to help his brother Kotaro. Very quickly within him was born the urge to create. He won the highest award at the Gifu Prefectural Art Exhibition in 1968, and from there his talent blossomed. He established his own kiln in 1974. Since then his list of exhibitions and awards has been amazing, including the Nihon Dento Kogei Ten (National Traditional Arts and Crafts Exhibition), Governors Prize and five times winner of Best of Show at the Asahi Togei Ten (Asahi Ceramics Exhibition), and Best of Show at Gifu Prefectural Exhibition. At the Mino Ceramics Exhibition, in addition to the highest award, the Mino Ceramics Award, he has received all three major awards, including the Shoroku Award and the Kobei Award.