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Tsujimura Shirō

2000 · Stoneware with white slip (kohiki style) · Asian Art

A giant of contemporary Japanese pottery whose wideranging repertoire includes revivals of Joseon-period Korean ceramics, Tsujimura Shirō has established himself as an artist whose deep command of buncheong-inspired whiteslip application produces works that are both reverent and original. The work here displays his particular fondness for a technique known in Japanese as kohiki whereby a vessel is dipped, either partially or in its entirety, in white slip. Tsujimura does so in ways that highlight the sensuous and artistic possibilities of that medium.

Artist

Tsujimura Shirō

Date

2000

Medium

Stoneware with white slip (kohiki style)

Culture

Japan

Department

Asian Art

Credit line

Purchase, Parnassus Foundation/Jane and Raphael Bernstein Gift, 2003