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A Yunomi by Tatsuzo Shimaoka browse these categories for related items... All Items: Vintage Arts:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese:Stoneware: Pre 1980: item # 522959 Please refer to our stock # Ichi 2838 when inquiring.
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| This is a very fine yunomi made by the famed Japanese potter, Tatsuzo Shimaoka. It features the characteristic rope design that typifies so many of his pieces and also has two circular reserves in which are found three squiggly lines in yellow, green and orange inside a double line circle. The piece measures 3" high on it’s raised foot and is 3" diameter at its widest. It is signed with the impressed mark of Shimaoka on the base. The yunomi is is mint condition with no chips, hairlines or restorations. Does not come with a box. A yunomi is a form of tea bowl, typically made from a ceramic material, being taller than wide, with a trimmed or turned foot. Unlike the more formal chawan tea bowl which is used during the Japanese tea ceremony, the yunomi tea bowl is made for daily (or informal) tea drinking. Shimaoka is well known for the use of ropes and cords impressed into the clay surface as a decorative treatment. Born in Tokyo in 1919, Tatsuzo Shimaoka visited the Mingeikan (Japan Folk Crafts Museum) while in his teens. There he discovered the beauty of mingei (folk art) and decided to pursue the art of pottery making. In 1946, following graduation from the Ceramics Section of the Tokyo Institute of Technology and war service, he went to Mashiko as an apprentice to the late Shoji Hamada, a Living National Treasure of Japan, who also held the Emperor's Gold Medal. During his apprenticeship there, Tatsuzo Shimaoka worked with a friend making for use in classrooms replicas of ancient (8000-200 BC) Jomon pottery-earthenware characterized by a straw rope pattern. He set up his own kiln and workshop in Mashiko in 1953, where he has lived and worked ever since. His signature technique of jomon zogon (rope impressed inlay) earned him the honor of Japanese Living National Treasure in 1996. His work is represented in museums worldwide | ||||||||||
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