FUROGAMA TO CHAWAN: CAST IRON TEA KETTLE & CERAMIC TEACUP.
HAGIWARA, Kichiji.
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[Morioka n.d.ca.1947-50]. Single sheet, large print 41 x 34 cm., woodblock printed & hand-tinted color, mend to lower left corner & a few small closed tears, hand-signed,cinnabar Hanko [seal], printed on hand-made Washi paper. UNIQUE ITEM! The artist, HAGIWARA Kichiji [1915-1957] was known as a Sosaku Hanga artist [Creative folk-woodblock print artist]. * This is a lovely example of Sosaku Hanga [Creative print] or Mingei-hanga [Japanese Folk art woodblock print]. It shows a Furogama, [a Tetsubin or iron-casted pot] used to make hot water for the Chanoyu or Japanese tea ceremony. Placed before the Furogama is a "Chawan" or ceramic folk-art tea cup, with lovely & bold folk-art design, enhanced with hand-painted colors. . The print therefore is an example of Zen art of Chanoyu [tea ceremony] utensils. Typically this kind of print would be hung on the wall of a tea-ceremony room. * The work is enhanced by hand-coloring on the Furogama where the green vertical stripes and red diamonds are drawn in. Also are other hand-drawn white lines on the foot and brown on the left and to outline of the Chawan, or tea cup. *** The print is signed with the Japanese Kanji character "Kichi" in the middle right side, along with the artist's cinnabar Hanko [seal] or chop. "Kichi" is an abbreviation of the artist's first name. *** Morika is famous in Japan for making cast-iron objects. This print was made in Morioka and there is a Morioka address hand-brushed on the verso of the print. We shall assume for now, this is the address of the artist, Hagiwara Kichiji, as he wrote it. . At the lower left of the verso of the print there is a pencil note: "Kichiji Hagiware, Morioka City." Also to the right lower corner is written in pencil "Guriri Fujin Sho-zoh" meaning "Presentation copy to Mrs. Guriri." We can only assume all of this hand-writing, hand-brushing was by the artist. Based on the fact that the artist put his address as Morioka city, we assume he lived there for a period of time, doing his personal art work. *** THE ARTIST: WHO WAS KICHIJI: Per the google article below, we liberally extract from it. Since 1937, he was a member of the Nihon Hanga Kyokai [Japanese woodblock Print Association]. *** CONDITION: The print was mended from the verso in the left corner, and there are a few small 'closed' tears mended on the verso with Washi hand-made paper. Else the print is very clean without blemishes. There are a few tiny pin holes it the upper corners. The work is printind on rough brown paper, common for the post-World War II period in Japan. While there is no date on it, the rough quality of the paper indicates this work was probably done ca 1947-1950. *** REFERENCES: HAGIWARA, Kichiji: A25&dq=HAGIWARA+Kichiji&source=bl&ots=FfXdEmOdQ-&sig=-S2OA3R 692U6tpSYvrfzoWXXzXk&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBYQ6AEwAGoVChMI9Y63i_O SyAIVEEaICh2bDgIh#v=onepage&q=HAGIWARA%20Kichiji&f=false ***. Seller Inventory # 35028601
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