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Jar

壺

late 1900s

Tsujimura Shirō 辻村史朗

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Culture
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
Stoneware with natural ash glaze (Shigaraki style)
Measurements
Overall: 50 x 54 cm (19 11/16 x 21 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.158
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Tsujimura Shirō has seven kilns in the hills outside the city of Nara.

Description

The surface of Tsujimura Shirō’s jar features a rough texture from grains of feldspar in the clay as well as designs created by wood ash during firing, with an aesthetic result that is in keeping with the Japanese tradition of subdued rusticity known as wabi-sabi.
A spherical, roughly textured stoneware, clay jar has an opening at the top that flares into the lip of the jar. Its colors move from light brown on our left to dull green streaks moving into medium gray on our right. A light brown circle is outlined on the lower left. A slight impression, as if made by a band, runs horizontally around the jar. Texturing spots show through the glaze as white.

Jar

late 1900s

Tsujimura Shirō

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Heisei period (1989–2019)

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