22730 Master of Folk Crafts Kanjiro Kawai (Three-Color Bowl (Binko-shiki)) KAWAI Kanjiro

Height 7.2cm Diameter 15.0cm

*Special exhibit at the Kanjiro Kawai Exhibition

Together with such great masters as Muneyoshi Yanagi and Shoji Hamada, who are representative of the Japanese folk art world, and such great masters as Kenkichi Tomimoto and Tatsuaki Kuroda, who are representative of modern Japanese crafts, Kawai Kanjiro is a master of Japanese folk art who has won worldwide acclaim for pioneering new frontiers in modern ceramics with his profound yet simple style that pursues "beauty of utility," and winning the Grand Prize at the Milan International Exhibition.

This work was created in his later years, and features well-balanced shapes and outstanding coloring in three colors: red, black, and green. Kanjiro's painting has a unique momentum and strength that his predecessors did not have. He even wrote in his diary that he was "exhausted" on the day of the painting.

Why not experience the overwhelming worldview of Kawai Kanjiro, who pursued "beauty of utility" and elevated Japanese folk craft pottery to the status of global art ?

Other works by this artist are included in the Kawai Kanjiro collection of works from the "Kawakatsu Collection," housed at the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto.