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Late nineteenth century, the objects illustrate the long history of ceramic production within the Seto-Mino region.
The discovery of an ancient Shino kiln site in 1930 by Arakawa Toyozo inspired the revival of a range of traditional ceramic styles associated with the tea ceremony. This book presents Arakawa's personal account of the development of pottery in the Mino area, and details various aspects of the pottery industry in Mino today.
Japan's brief but dramatic Momoyama period (1573-1615) witnessed the struggles of a handful of ambitious warlords for control of the long-splintered country and finally the emergence of a united Japan. This was also an era of dynamic cultural development in which the feudal lords sponsored lavish, innovative arts to proclaim their newly acquired power. One such art was a ceramic ware known as Oribe, whose mysterious sudden appearance and rise in popularity are explored in this book. Ceramics are closely connected to the tea ceremony and central to Japanese culture. In this context Oribe wares represented a unique and major development, since they were the easiest Japanese ceramics to carry extensive multicolor decoration. Boldly painted with geometric and naturalistic designs, they display sensuous glazes, especially in a distinctive vitreous green, as well as a whole repertoire of playful new shapes. Their genesis has tradtionally been ascribed to Furuta Oribe (1543/44-1615), a warrior and the foremost tea master of his time, who appears to have played a crucial role in redefining the aesthetics of Japan. Over seventy engaging vessels of Oribe ware, along with striking examples of other types of wares produced in the same milieu, make up the heart of this catalogue. -- Metropolitan Museum of Art website.
For more than 30 years, Dr. Anneliese and Dr. Wulf Crueger--guided by Saeko It�--have devoted themselves to studying, understanding, and collecting Japanese ceramics. Today, they share the rich fruits of their knowledge with this lavishly illustrated volume based on their own collection. The equivalent of Roberts Museum Guide, devotees of beautiful ceramics can pick it up and use it to select and visit potters as they undertake an artistic tour of the country. Organized geographically, it goes from kiln to kiln--which in Japan may refer to a lone site or an entire ceramics region that contains hundreds of workshops. Along the way, they outline the history, development, and unique stylistic characteristics of each area’s work, and the traditions that inspired it.
This introduction to the ceramic art of Japan has four major purposes: to recount the history of art, to reveal the special qualities that contribute to the uniqueness of Japanese ceramics, to explore the intimate relationship between ceramics and the daily life of the Japanese people, and to discuss the outstanding traditional ceramic types and techniques. These purposes are ably accomplished by the lucidly written text and the generous selection of 44 photographs in full color and 164 in black and white. In tracing the long and colorful development of ceramic art in Japan, always with attention to the social scene of which it has been a part, the book presents not only such universally famous wares as Kakiemon, Imari, and Kutani but also the lesser-known yet equally interesting but also the lesser-known yet equally interesting wares of earlier ages, including the products of the "six ancient kilns" and the pottery associated with the origins of the tea ceremony. The author is singularly successful in conveying to the reader his own enchantment with traditional Japanese ceramics and his appreciation of their aesthetic values. At the same time, his book provides an excellent background for the study of present-day Japanese ceramics, which command no less admiration than the celebrated wares of bygone days--book cover.
The authors offer a comprehensive, visual, kiln-by-kiln survey of Shino and Oribe ware. Illustrations.