26408 HAYAMA Yuki Mankasai Ornament (Exhibited at solo exhibition, same style) HAYAMA Yuki

Height: 11.2 cm
Width: 63.5 cm
Depth: 14.6 cm

Yuki Hayama is a renowned contemporary ceramic artist, unrivaled in his exquisite painting technique, who expresses a fantastical world rooted in ancient Eastern and Western civilizations through his unique interpretation and superhumanly detailed depictions.

For centuries, ceramic artists have dreamed of capturing the mystical colors of nuts and flowers from nature on overglaze porcelain. This dream was realized with *fencai* glazes from the Qing Dynasty, glass enamels similar to Western cloisonné. However, expressing colors using traditional Japanese pigments remains a challenging technique, relying on intuition and luck even today.

Mankasai (Myriad Flowers in Color) is a series of works that express the beauty of nature using traditional Japanese pigments, based on sketches accumulated over many years. They are truly brilliant and captivating. He freehands 128 patterns that he has committed to memory. The creation of Yuki Hayama's works requires an unimaginable amount of mental fortitude and skill, making them increasingly precious.

"Mankasai is created with the purpose of refining and enhancing the precision of Japan's unique overglaze porcelain technique to the utmost, and passing it down to future generations. No matter how valuable a technique is, it will not be passed on unless it stimulates people's aesthetic sense and captivates their hearts. The flowers depicted are those whose colors the artist himself has burned into his memory and imprinted in his mind over many years, and when reconfigured, the seasonal boundaries are removed."