23170 KOYAMA Fujio (Muneakae flower cup (1966, first kiln in Kamakura))

Height 3.4cm Diameter 8.2cm

Fujio Koyama is a great contributor to the development of modern ceramics, having made a great contribution to the study of ancient ceramics at the Tokyo Imperial Museum and the Committee for the Protection of Cultural Properties, and traveling around Japan to kilns in Mino, Kyoto, Bizen, Karatsu, and other places to make pottery. "Flowers" are synonymous with the artist. While modeled on Song dynasty red-painted pottery, this bowl can be said to have blossomed into a unique flower of the artist's own, thanks to the sensibility he developed through his study of ancient ceramics.