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Nakamura Kimpei (b.1935) is a revolutionary ceramic potter who takes as much from his traditional upbringing in Kanazawa as he does from 1960s West Coast Pop-Funk art; his work is always innovative on some level and never boring, in fact he loves to challenge his audience and his students at the Tokyo art university where is a professor. A good article about Nakamura can be read in the Japan Times at search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fa20060525a3.html This is a rare and important 1969 work that is very organic with its patchwork-Jomon facade and olive green glaze scheme with hiragana hi-sa-sa stamped here and there. It stands on an oval raised foot and is a work from one of Nakamura's most important periods. Museum quality in perfect condition with a signed box, 37cm.tallx33.3cmx20.2, signed on base where a past exhibition sticker is also attached. A similar work from 1969 is shown as well, taken from Gendai no Togei, Kodansha, 1977 (Volume 16 that also includes Isamu Noguchi, Araki Takako, Yamada Hikaru, Asuka Tsuboi, Mishima Kimiyo, Morino Taimei and Koie Ryoji, among others.)
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