KAWAI KANJIRŌ
Box title: 花盒子 (Hana gōsu); Covered Container with Flower Motif
Box signature: 寛 (Kan)
Box seal: 河井寛之印 (Kawai Kan no in); Kawai Kan's seal
Further images
Literature
Similar works:
50 Year Anniversary After Kawai Kanjirō's Passing – Kawai Kanjiro. Edited by Hasegawa Yumiko, Yamazaki Tsuyoshi, Aihata Keiji, Nakagawa Takao. Tokyo: Mainichi Shimbun, 2016, p. 74, pl. 42-1.
Kawai Kanjirō no tōgei: Kagakusha no me to shijin no kokoro (Ceramics of Kawai Kanjirō: Eyes of a Scientist and Heart of a Poet). Higashi Osaka Art Museum, Seto City Art Museum, Hatsukaichi Art Gallery, 2013, p. 84, pl. 110.
Kawai no shinjitsu (The Real Kawai Kanjiro: Celebrating the 120th Anniversary of Kawai Kanjiro's Birth). Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art, 2009, p. 63.
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.