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Bizen Eared Vase by Takahara Shoji
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Pre 2000 item# 942879
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80,000 yen--Exchange Rates at www.xe.com/ucc/
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Miyao is quite the Bizen potter to watch for contemporary forms, yet for classical forms not many were better than the late Bizen ceramic artist Takahara Shoji. Takahara (1941-2000) was one of Bizen's veteran potters who started in the early 1960s when there were only a dozen or so potters; now there are said to be about 600. He studied with Okayama Intangible Cultural Treasures Ishii Furo(1899-1964) and Isezaki Yozan(1902-1961) before establishing his own kiln in 1962. Here is a yohen eared ...click for details
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Michi-Ai Hachi-Bowl by Kumakura Junkichi
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Pre 1990 item# 936287
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Kyoto has always been a city of avant-garde artists dating back to the Edo period. In the 1940s a revolutionary ceramic group called Sodeisha changed the ceramic landscape of Japan forever. One of its earliest members was Kumakura Junkichi(1920-1985). Kumakura was one of Kyoto's most popular ceramic 'sculptors' and his work is in the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto as well as the Shigaraki Ceramic Park Museum and Suntory Museum. In 1989 a major retrospective exhibition was held ...click for details
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Echizen Jar by Reiko Cohen/Previews
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Contemporary item# 922431
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"The clay comes from the earth, I give it shape. The colors and patterns are born in the flames." These are the words of the late Ben Cohen and are the spirit of the kiln that Reiko--Ben's wife--now runs. Ben passed away in 1992 from ASL and obviously Reiko and sons were devastated. Yet her will, and Ben's, kept the flames alive and Reiko, to her great credit, creates some very good Echizen works. We have six of her works to offer and the first is the most traditional; a well-r ...click for details
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