KINYO-GUINOMI

Though one has come to expect the brilliant saidei works of the late Miyashita Zenji, in his youth he followed in his father's footstep creating a wide array of pottery in various styles and glazes. Among one notable style that Miyashita mastered was this Kinyo style which makes for a rather pretty and useful guinomi which has a great, compact form, exceptional lip highlighted by a dark rim and an overall luminous textured punctuated by a deep crimson spot signifying the front of the pot. I have tried to highlight the various qualities of this guinomi in a short video slideshow and hope that this shows off a lesser known style of Miyashita Zenji, one of the surface geniuses of the 20th century.