25645 Kanjiro Kawai Flower and Bird Vase

Height 25.6cm

Width 21.2cm

Depth 12.4cm

Together with such great masters as Yanagi Muneyoshi and Hamada Shoji, who are representative of the Japanese folk art world, and Tomimoto Kenkichi and Kuroda Tatsuaki, who are representative of modern Japanese crafts, Kawai Kanjiro is a central figure who built the foundations of the Japanese folk art world. He has pioneered new frontiers in modern ceramics with his profound yet simple style that pursues "beauty of utility," and has received international acclaim, including the Grand Prize at the Milan International Exhibition. Kanjiro's unique flower and bird patterns are drawn using his specialty, tube painting. There are almost no works with flowers and birds drawn using tube painting, even in illustrated catalogs, which shows that this is a very rare and valuable work. It can be said to be a work of the same or even greater quality as the "Hanade Hen Tsubo."