22732 HAYASHI Shotaro (Rikyu Rat Shino split high-footed sake cup)

Height 7.1cm Diameter 9.0-9.3cm

He has developed Shino ware in many different ways while still adhering to the basics, and has presented many wonderful works. He has twice won the highest award and the excellence award at the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, and continues to accumulate other brilliant achievements, such as the Mino Ceramic Art Grand Prize. Currently, Shotaro Hayashi is a representative artist who leads Mino's contemporary ceramics as a holder of Gifu Prefecture's Important Intangible Cultural Property. This work is a "Nezumi Shino" piece with a bold shape, a high base, a unique glaze mix, and beautiful coloring due to its superb firing. Shotaro Hayashi is also famous for his "Akashino", but in contrast to the good coloring of "Akashino", the heavy appearance of "Nezumi Shino" expresses the artist's personality, and this work, which expresses calm colors from skilled glaze mixes and sophisticated firing techniques, shows a completely new worldview that has never been seen before. Please enjoy the magnificent worldview of "Nezumi Shino", which is on par with the representative technique "Akashino".