Description
This exquisite rectangular shohin bonsai pot exemplifies the refined artistry of the Tosui kiln. The piece features a pristine white glaze that serves as a canvas for a traditional ‘ landscape painting. The brushwork delicately depicts a classic Japanese scene, featuring mountains and pines, framed by a matching blue rim. The pot stands on sturdy, integrated feet, combining elegant aesthetics with functional stability, while the smooth patina indicates its excellent quality.
The clean white and blue color palette makes this pot an exceptional choice for flowering species like Satsuki Azaleas or fruit-bearing trees such as Winterberry (Ilex serrata), where the colors will pop against the white background. It is also well-suited for delicate deciduous trees . The dimensions make it the perfect choice to add a playfully painted pot to a shohin bonsai display.
- Outer dimensions: 14 x 10 x 5.5 cm
- Inner dimensions: 12 x 8 x 4 cm
- Origin: Japan
- Potter/Kiln: Tosui
- Condition: Excellent
About the kiln:
The pot’s creator, Tōsui (Tsugao Mizuno), is the current generation of Tōsui, a lineage that has produced many masterpieces from the pre-war to the post-war period. The earlier Tōsui pots were mostly glazed, with paintings by Asai Chazan (Shinano Chazan). Tsugao Mizuno studied ceramic painting under Chazan and trained in pot-making under his father, Ryokujian Tōsui. As an artist who inherited both Tōsui’s pot-making techniques and Chazan’s painting style, he introduced Tōsui painted pots to the world. His distinctive paintings, rich in character, feature landscapes, figures, and birds and flowers based on the Southern School of Chinese painting, as well as series like The Fifty-Three Stations of the Tōkaidō, Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, Four Seasons Landscapes, as well as various pots for bonsai, colored pots, and medium-sized pots, showcasing his versatile talent and prolific output. Due to the limited production of Tōsui painted pots, their popularity has been increasing in recent years.
