Dish with three circular spots
Kitaōji Rosanjin 北大路魯山人 Japanese
Not on view
The iron-red spots on this unglazed plate are reminiscent of firing marks (botan-mochi) often found on Bizen ware. In 1952, Rosanjin, a ceramist, calligrapher, painter, and restaurateur, visited Kaneshige Tōyō’s studio with the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi to learn the repertory of Bizen kiln effects. Later, Kaneshige built a Bizen-style kiln for Rosanjin, in Kamakura.
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