Hotei Japanese Prints catalog autumn 2014

the 7th Blue Medal of Honour from the Japanese government in 1989.
49. Kôji Hatakeyama 畠 山 耕 治 (1956-)
‘Eight Faces’. Octagonal lidded bronze box with gold-leaf
interior. Date: 2014. Dim. 14.5 cm (h) x 10.5 cm (w).
With original box, signed and seal Koji Hatakeyama. Born in
Takaoka, Toyama, Hatakeyama studied metalwork at Kanazawa
College of Art, and chose the method of metal casting –pouring
molten metal into a mold. He decorated this octagonal box with
abstract patterns resembling a landscape.His works are in various
international museums, for example in the V&A in London and
the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
50. Kôji Hatakeyama 畠 山 耕 治 (1956-)
‘Six Faces’. Hexagonal lidded bronze box with gold-leaf
interior. Date: 2013. Dim. 16 cm (h) x 15.5 cm (w).
With original box, signed and seal Koji Hatakeyama.
51. Kôji Hatakeyama 畠 山 耕 治 (1956-)
‘Eight Faces’. Octagonal lidded bronze box with gold-leaf
interior. Date: 2014. Dim. 14.5 cm (h) x 11.5 cm (w)
With original box, signed and seal Koji Hatakeyama.
52. Kise Hiroshi 木 瀬 浩 詞 (1980-)
Hammered copper bowl with a gold leaf interior. Dim. 14
cm (h) x 24 cm (w).
Kise is an independent artist after receiving his training at The
Tohoku Art and Design School. He has been the recipient of
several prestigious awards.
Ceramics
53. Kiyomizu Rokubei VI 六 代 清 水 六 兵 衛 (1901–1980) and
Nishiyama Suishô 西 山 翠 嶂 (1879-1958)
A ceramic bowl made by Kiyomizu Rokubei VI, decorated
with bamboo and blossom by Nishiyama Suishô. Signature
in bottom of bowl. Dim. 10 cm (h) x 23.5 cm (w).
Including original wooden box, with signature and seal of both
artists. Rokubei VI graduated from the Kyoto City School of Art
and Craft and Kyoto Municipal College of Painting before
apprenticing with his father from 1925. In his successful career he
received numerous awards at the government sponsored
exhibitions and was later appointed as a judge. He received the
Cultural Merit Award in 1976. Now the eigth generation of the
Rokubei lineage of potters works in Kyoto.
Nishiyama Suishô was a Kyoto painter, briefly a pupil of Kono
Bairei and later of Takeuchi Seihô, who was his father-in-law. He
was also influenced by Asai Chû, learning Western decoration
techniques and like Seihô and Asai Chû often worked together with
Kyoto craftsmen such as Rokubei to add decorations to ceramics.
54. Katô Shunpû 加 藤 順 風 (1914-)
A ceramic tea bowl (chawan), Seto ware. Distorted shoe
shape (kutsugata) signed at the side of the foot, c. 1960.
Dim. 8 cm (h) x 14 cm (w).
Including original wooden box, with signature and seal. Katô
Shunpû exhibited at Nihon dentô kôgei ten in 1966 as a member
of the Seto Dentô Tôgei-Kai.
55. Kayoko Hoshino 星 野 佳 世 子 (b. 1949)
An open stoneware bowl with pink glaze. A typical
example of Hoshino’s style, suggesting a shape of folded
paper. Incised decorations, applied by straw. Dim. 10.5 cm
(h) x 32 cm (w).
Hoshino’s work is present in several museums a.o. Museum Boymans
van Beuningen, Rotterdam and the Chazen Museum, in Madison
Wisconsin.
56. Inaba Chikako 稲 葉 周 子 (b. 1974)
Open ribbed ceramic bowl. Dim. 18 cm (h)x 24 cm (w).
Inaba was born in Yokohama city, Graduated at the design
section of the Musashi no Bijutsu Daigaku in 1996 and the Tajimi
City Pottery Design Institute in 2001. Currently she works in
Otsu, Shiga prefecture.
57. Ôno Yoshinori 大 野 佳 典 (1978-)
A contemporary white porcelain water container (mizusashi)
with black lacquer lid. Dim. 15 cm (h) x 14.8 cm (w).
Including original signed box. Ôno’s work has been exhibited
throughout Japan and his work was selected for an exhibition for
the Musée Picasso in Paris in 2012.
Lacquer
58. Yokoyama Hakutei 横 山 白 汀 (1901-1972)
A large black bull, made in dried black lacquer (koku shitsu
nuri). Seal at bottom. Dim. 20 cm (h) x 40 cm (l).
With original signed box.
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