Guinomi by Kawai Hisashi

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #752943

Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966) who was part of the Mingei movement of craftsmen, not only produced visually appealing and poetic potteries, he has also influenced a lineage of skillful potters, who continue to make vibrant vessels following the footsteps of the great craftsman and master of enchanting glazes. This particular guinomi (sake cup) was made by Kawai Hisashi, born in 1942, who studied with Kanjiro and Kanjiro’s nephew, Takeichi (1908-1989). The exotic aestheticism and wonderful colors ar... Click for details

Kure Cup by Kawai Toshitaka

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #748421

Kawai Kanjiro (1890-1966), a master of glaze and fantasy, was part of the Mingei movement of potters, along with his close friend Hamada Shoji, Bernard Leach and Tomimoto Kenkichi. The movement was created as a reaction to the industrialization of ceramic production, to give back spirit to pottery and nobility to daily ware. The poetic character of Kawai Kanjiro's works has influenced potters who studied with him and continues to do so. This particular cup is made in the Kure style, Kure bein... Click for details

Karatsu Guinomi by Nakano Tochitobo IV

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #748420

Karatsu-yaki is one of the humblest pottery traditions and its apparent simplicity has made it revered among tea ceremony masters. Its rustic, unpretentious character and basic forms and tones give it strength and has kept it popular for more than four hundred years. This attractive guinomi (sake cup) was made by a Karatsu master potter named Nakano Tochitobo, born in 1916, at the Nakano kiln, a well known and old Karatsu kiln, which was established by Matsushima Yagoro. The Nakano lineage of... Click for details

Two Bizen Yunomi-Tea Cups by Kakurezaki Ryuichi

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Pre 2000: item #747659

Even with his yunomi-green tea cups, Kakurezaki Ryuichi shows his distinctive style and flair, here seen with perfectly etched lines for gripping and also decoration. One is round and the other a slight square; both have fine 'clay flavor' and are in perfect condition with signed boxes; both 9.5cm.tall; the left dating to early in Kakurezaki's career and the right about 10 years ago.

SAKE cup BIZEN Youhen Sakenomi Masahiro Miyao

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #746492

This Guinomi is a work of Masahiro Miyao. He studies under Okayama intangible cultural asset holder Yuichi Yamamoto. He builds the kiln in 2001 and is independent. He studies under Fumio Kawabata and challenges SizenNerikomi. He won the first chairperson Prize in Bizenyaki by a Japanese folkcraft exhibition last year. It is the ceramist that the future is promising. Size Height 6.5cm, width 6cm With A signature box

Japanese SAKE cup BIZEN Sakenomi Masahiro Miyao

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #746491

This Guinomi is a work of Masahiro Miyao. He studies under Okayama intangible cultural asset holder Yuichi Yamamoto. He builds the kiln in 2001 and is independent. He studies under Fumio Kawabata and challenges SizenNerikomi. He won the first chairperson Prize in Bizenyaki by a Japanese folkcraft exhibition last year. It is the ceramist that the future is promising. Size Height 6cm, width 6.5cm With A signature box

SAKE Cup Inbe Guinomi Takenaka Kenji

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #746488

This Guinomi is a work of Kenji Takenaka. Molding peculiar to Takenaka is given. Contrast of black and Goma is beautiful. Originally Kenji Takenaka was a jewelry designer. He studies under living national treasure Jun Isezaki afterwards. This ceramist looks forward to future activity. Size Height 5.5cm, width 7.5cm With A signature box

Shino Guinomi by Suzuki Goro (n)

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #745583

This wonderful guinomi (sake cup) is part of the collection of 159 Shino pieces, made over the last 5 years, which were exposed in Tokyo in December 2007, to mark Suzuki Goro’s 50 years as a potter. Each piece had its own character and showed the multifaceted richness of the Shino pottery tradition and the prolificacy of their maker. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed a unique way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on tradition... Click for details

Shino Guinomi by Suzuki Goro (m)

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #745582

This wonderful guinomi (sake cup) is part of the collection of 159 Shino pieces, made over the last 5 years, which were exposed in Tokyo in December 2007, to mark Suzuki Goro’s 50 years as a potter. Each piece had its own character and showed the multifaceted richness of the Shino pottery tradition and the prolificacy of their maker. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed a unique way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on tradition... Click for details

Shino Guinomi by Suzuki Goro (l)

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Cups Contemporary: item #745581

This wonderful guinomi (sake cup) is part of the collection of 159 Shino pieces, made over the last 5 years, which were exposed in Tokyo in December 2007, to mark Suzuki Goro’s 50 years as a potter. Each piece had its own character and showed the multifaceted richness of the Shino pottery tradition and the prolificacy of their maker. Suzuki Goro is a potter who goes beyond that usual appellation. He has developed a unique way of expressing himself through ceramics, basing his work on tradition... Click for details