Illustrated is another wonderful,
colorful and impromptu painting by master wood-block artist; Munakata Shiko.
Munakata's spontaneous painting depicts a gosu blue molded vase by his lifelong friend,
Kawai Kanjiro filled with red camilla branches framing the pot along with a
line of line of quickly rendered calligraphy. There are quite a few Munakata
prints and paintings that use Kawai pottery as a central theme which is a
touching tribute to not only their friendship by their great respect for each
other and the mingei craft movement.
"Friendship is neither a
formality or a mode; it is rather a life." David Grayson
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