Mashiko Bottle
A delightful slab-built bottle, which we attribute to Kimsura Ichiro (木村一郎 1915-1978). Ichiro was a protégée of the illustrious Shoji Hamada, father of modern Japanese studio pottery, and a founder of the Mingei movement. Such bottles are often attributed to Hamada, but the potters who worked at Hamada's Mashiko pottery (including also Sakuma Totaro and Murata Gen) had a tendency to build on each other's work, and share their ideas freely.
A delightful slab-built bottle, which we attribute to Kimsura Ichiro (木村一郎 1915-1978). Ichiro was a protégée of the illustrious Shoji Hamada, father of modern Japanese studio pottery, and a founder of the Mingei movement. Such bottles are often attributed to Hamada, but the potters who worked at Hamada's Mashiko pottery (including also Sakuma Totaro and Murata Gen) had a tendency to build on each other's work, and share their ideas freely.
A delightful slab-built bottle, which we attribute to Kimsura Ichiro (木村一郎 1915-1978). Ichiro was a protégée of the illustrious Shoji Hamada, father of modern Japanese studio pottery, and a founder of the Mingei movement. Such bottles are often attributed to Hamada, but the potters who worked at Hamada's Mashiko pottery (including also Sakuma Totaro and Murata Gen) had a tendency to build on each other's work, and share their ideas freely.