KAWAI KANJIRŌ
Box title: 鵬龍文黒釉茶盌 (Hōryū mon kokuyū chawan); Black Teabowl with Phoenix and Dragon Motif
Box signature: 河井寛次郎先生御作 棟方志功記 (Kawai Kanjirō sensei on saku Munakata Shikō shirusu); Work made by Kawai Kanjirō, inscription by Munakata Shikō
Further images
Literature
Similar shape teabowls with different glazes:
Kawai Kanjiro: The Kawakatsu Collection in The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Kyoto: Toho Shuppan, 2005, pp. 242-243, 292.
Ōmori, Tamio. Heart of Kawai Kanjirō – gifted to his hometown, Yasugi city, 1992, p. 36, pl. 52.
General references:
Baekeland, Frederick. Modern Japanese Ceramics in American Collections. New York: Japan Society, 1993, pp. 53-55, 65-66, 142-145.
Kawai Kanjirō to Munakata Shikō: Nihon mingeikan shozōhin o chūshin ni (Kawai Kanjirō and Munakata Shikō: Collection of the Japan Folk Crafts Museum). Chiba: Chiba City Museum of Art, 2016.
Painted Clay: Wada Morihiro and Modern Ceramics of Japan. With essays by Diana X. Yang and Alice North and introduction by Joan Mirviss. New York: Joan B Mirviss LTD, 2023, pp. 38 and 40.
Todate, Kazuko and Ann Nishimura Morse. Earth, Fire, Woven Bamboo: Contemporary Japanese Ceramics and Bamboo Art. Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 2013, pp. 27, 32-33, 140.
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