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Up for sale is this "Yano Keisen (1872-1965) Vintage shino pottery tea bowl #4463" If you have any questions please contact us before buy it. No reserve.
- width: approx. 13.3cm (5 15⁄64in) x 10.5cm (4 9⁄64in)
- tall: approx. 8.5cm (3 11⁄32in)
- weight: 368g (gross 672g)
-note: He was 88 years old at the time of the work in 1960. It is written that he named this tea bowl "Fubou-yama" (Mt. Fubou) because of his reformed spirit even in his old age. Fubou means never aged.
1897-1965
Ceramic artist in Kasugai, Aichi prefecture.
Born as the second son of Nagae Shotaro in Kozoji-cho, Kasugai City, Aichi Prefecture.
In 1942, he produced a tea bowl to celebrate the 88th birthday of Toyama Mitsuru, and was given the name of Keisen.
In 1952, he made a tea bowl for Master Rosen Takashina, the abbot of Eiheiji Temple, the president of the Buddhist Church of Japan, to celebrate his 77th birthday, and was given the character for Sen (hermit) and also the name Kei-Sen.
The first solo exhibition was held in Tokyo in 1955 at the initiative of Kawabata Yasunari, Daibutsu Jiro, and others.
Held a solo exhibition in Nagoya in 1956 under the auspices of the Chubu Keizai Newspaper Co.
Held a joint exhibition with Masanokoji Saneatsu and Munakata Shiko in Nagoya in 1957.
Presented Shino tea bowls for the wedding of the Crown Prince in 1959.
Began producing Honan ware in Otsu in 1851.
Since then, he has held solo and collaborative exhibitions at Maruei Department Store in Nagoya, Meitetsu Department Store, and other places.
In 2003, his work was rated 600,000 yen by the Appraisal Institute of Fine Arts.
Shino ware
Shino ware is one technique of ceramic art that flourished during the tea ceremony craze of the Momoyama period; it was the first white pottery to be created in Japan. Due to its white color, images can be drawn on the sides, also making it the first pottery in Japan to feature brushed-on paintings. Although it declined in popularity after the Edo period, at 1930 the early of the Showa era the discovery of old Shino kilns by Arakawa Toyozo ( 1894 – 1985 ) along with subsequent research led to a second revival for this art form.
In the traditional method of production, a mould is cast using eggshell-colored "Mogusa" dirt, a specialty of the Mino region with a light stickiness like brown sugar, after which a thick feldspar glaze is applied and the pottery is fired.
Shino ware has its origins in the traditional incense smelling ceremony of the Muromachi period where it belonged to the "Shino School", founded by Shino Soshin ( ? – 1480 ) who was ordered to produce pottery for the Mino region. Let's take a look at several representative techniques of this ceramic art.
Muji (Plain) Shino
Simple and unpatterned, with a white glaze.
E Shino
Images are drawn beneath the white glaze. Images are drawn on the first coat with a metal powder known as "onisaka", after which another layer of glaze is applied and the pottery is baked.
Nezumi Shino
Has a white pattern done in an inlay style. Baked after the base coat of onisaka is scraped off, which results in the remaining metal particles turning red and grey with the scraped off portions remaining white.
Aka Shino
Although fired using the same method as Nezumi Shino, those that come out red are called this.
Beni Shino
Metal images are drawn like in red raku pottery, and the pottery is fired after a coat of Shino glaze is applied.