Yoshikawa Masamichi (b.1946 )has had a keen sense of design ever since his youth, and wished to become an interior designer until fate brought him to the ancient pottery center of Tokoname. It was the beauty within functionality, or the "yo-no-bi" aesthetic, that strongly inspired the then twenty-something Yoshikawa at Tokoname. Yoshikawa has developed into an imaginative creator of porcelain wares, while his name is now well known internationally as well as domestically. To name but a ...click for details
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Here are some special porcelain rabbit figures that Nagae Shigekazu made for the year 1999, the Year of the Rabbit. Each in perfect condition with a signed box, each has a blue interior and a slightly different lid, 6cm.tallx8x5.7, signed on base. Nagae(b.1958) is an internationally celebrated and award-winning ceramic artist from Seto.
Here is a masterpiece of a porcelain blue-gosu bamboo painted tsubo-jar by Kondo Hiroshi(b.1936), the second son of Living National Treasure Kondo Yuzo(1902-1985) and father of the very popular Takahiro. I will leave it at that for now, words do not convey the wind in a bamboo forest; in perfect condition with a signed box, 28cm.tallx24, signed on base.
