Kazuhiro Toyosumi

Vessel decorated with ancient colored slip painting. “Flowers of the Tenpyō era”

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  • Presented in 2015
  • H 50.5 x W 26.0 x D 19.7 cm
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Category Ceramics
Year Presented 2015
Dimensions H 50.5 x W 26.0 x D 19.7 cm
Exhibition The 62nd Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition

Kazuhiro Toyosumi

photo Kazuhiro Toyosumi

This is one of the works in the “Tenpyo no Hana” series that I have kept producing for the past dozen years or so. In the ancient city of Nara, where I was born and brought up, I imagined the olden times when Buddhist culture blossomed in the Nara period now long past. I put my impressions of the “time” of the Tenpyo era (729-749) into clay, and expressed the shape, coloration, and textures to give a certain feel to the piece; as if it has just been excavated.