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Today, as a continuation from yesterday, I would like to introduce a recent flower vase by Yuho Kaneshige.
Titled "Hata-zori" (Flared Rim) Vase, this work was created using mountain clay;
because mountain clay lacks elasticity, the resulting form is free of artifice and unaffected in style.
While his rice field clay works are very elegant, this piece has a presence that is simply "there," much like a scarecrow.
It is a vase so rustic that one can imagine it beautifully weathering and decaying outdoors in the wind and rain.
A combination of the orange tones typical of mountain clay, "shiso" red, and dark, crusty ash glaze. The layers are formed beautifully.
In a lecture I attended, Yuho-sensei once said, "As I have grown older, I have begun to feel death in Bizen pottery."
There are the aspects of life: the fertile earth, mother earth, and the bounty of the earth.
And there is also the aspect of death—accepting all death and returning it to the soil.
Perhaps it is the side of the earth that embraces all such withering and decay that is emphasized in these mountain clay works.
It is interesting to compare this to the fertile, vibrant texture of his rice field clay works, which remain lively even after being fired.
(Yuho Kaneshige / Ibe Hata-zori Flower Vase size: diameter 14.8cm x diameter 14.6cm x height 26.8cm price: ¥80,000)
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