RYUSEN-MON

Ryusen-mon, curving lines design is the description written on the box of the large seihakuji vase by Kubota Yasuyoshi. Though this seductive and elegant porcelain vase is coated in a light blue glaze it is hard to tell in my photos but the diaphanous, ethereal ribbons can be clearly seen building varying amounts of glaze to create a rather winter like landscape that literally dances across the surface of this icy pot. A similar but much larger tsubo in this ryusen-mon design was exhibited at the Nihon Kogei-ten (16) in 2001 and won the Mainichi Shinbun Award and having seen the large piece and this piece I can certainly understand why. I think I could go on waxing poetic and slinging hyperbole regarding this hanaire but hopefully the photo says all that is really needed.