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Kyoto style Satsuma Koro/Incense burner, by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984) Taisho period, 1920s.

Description:This koro missing its lid, is 10cm tall and having cracked glaze and the whole body is fully adorned with two scenes and areas below the handles are decorated with a) one side roses and butterflies b) the other side landscape depicting sea shore with pine trees and sail boats, framed with fan-like cartouches reminding me Hiroshige's prints. One of the main compositions depicts an interior scene with two princely figures a father and a son, the inner space opens to a landscape on the background, the other main composition is a street scene with 3 bijins and a young girl and a gentleman on the far right looking at the group of bijins, and roofs of houses at the background.

The artist who made and decorated the koro is Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984).Kusube Yaichi was a Kyoto potter studied early Chinese monochrome and b&w porcelain. Exhibited in Bunten and Teiten. His works were in great variety monochrome, coloured designs, gold ground, b&w, some moulded patterns, over glaze enamels.

Kyoto style Satsuma Koro/Incense burner, by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984) Taisho period, 1920s.

Kusube Yaichi: In Showa period after the WWII, two great potter-artists, Ito Touzan and Kusube Yaichi succeeded the fire of Awata. They were the main members of Nitten, the most popular of all the great art organizations in Japan. Specially, Kusube Yaichi was given the Order of Cultual Merits which is the highest prize for ceramic artists in Japan, or Jusanmi-prize and a sliver cup .

However, this fire completely ceased when Ito Touzan died in 1970 at the age of 70 and Kusube Yaichi died in 1984 at the age of 87.

Source: http://www.awatayaki.com/historical%20overview.htm

Laurance P. Roberts, A Dictionary of Japanese Artists, Weatherhill, Trumbull, 2000 : 99

Kyoto style Satsuma Koro/Incense burner, by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984) Taisho period, 1920s.

Artists signature: Kusube / 楠部

Kyoto style Satsuma Koro/Incense burner, by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984) Taisho period, 1920s.

Figurine of a drummer boy, Satsuma moriage by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984), late Taisho Period, private collection

This image has been aimed to put here to show Kusube's early works and to compare with the koro, as an artist with different styles.

Figurine of a drummer boy, Satsuma moriage by Kusube Yaichi 楠部彌弌(1897-1984), late Taisho Period, private collection

Signature of the artist with the Made in Japan monogram which helps to date it to the late Taisho period.

Kutani Vazosu/Vase circa/yakl.1900-1910

Kutani Vazosu Geç Meiji Dönemi'ndendir. Kutani'ye has kırmızı, bej, kahverengi ve altın varakla bezenmiştir. Bezemelerde dönemin modasına uygun olarak floral desenler özellikle şakayıklar, yaprak ve dallar ve bu floral atmosfer içinde uçmaya çalışan bir kuş ile palmet motifleri kullanılmıştır. Bej rengi fon üzerinde çatlamış sır dikkati çeker ki bunun ya Satsuma eğitimi almış sanatçılar eliyle yapılmış olmasından ya da fırın ve sır kalınlığına bağlı bir doğal oluşum olduğunu iddia eden iki farklı görüş vardır. Yükseklik 15cm'dir.

Kutani vase, adorned with floral motifs such as peonies, leaves, branches and a bird travelling around. Kutani red is dominant among beige background with cracked glaze and brown colours. There are two different views on the cracked glaze, unusual to Kutani, the first claims Satsuma trained artists worked in the decoration of some sort of Kutanis, the latter claims firing accident with a nice looking result. Height 15cm. Late Meiji and considerably rare to typical Kutanis.

Kutani Vazosu/Vase circa/yakl.1900-1910

Kutani markası kırmızı boya ile yazılmıştır.

A generic Kutani mark for export porcelain.

Kutani Vazosu/Vase circa/yakl.1900-1910

Japon Occupied Japan markalı fincan tabağı, 1945-1952 civarı, çap: 9.5 cm.

Saucer, marked Occupied Japan, 9.5cm in diameter, probably Kutaniish, circa 1945-52, free handed sansui.

Occupied Japan markalı tabağın alt kısmı, adı geçen jenerik marka.

Bottom of the saucer with the Occupied Japan mark in blue.

Satsuma vase with moriage decoration late Meiji period 1900-1910/Satsuma vazosu yakl.1900-1910

Dimensions / ölçüler :

Height /yükselik: 8cm,

Çap / diameter: 5cm

Satsuma vase with moriage decoration late Meiji period 1900-1910/Satsuma vazosu yakl.1900-1910

Base inscription read "dai nihon ...tsukuru".

Kutani cup, late Meiji period c.1890 /Kutani çay fincanı , Geç Meiji Dönemi yakl.1890

It is as thin as eggshell. It is decorated with a landscape of village, pond in which a rowing boat with a bijin and an oarsman, mountaneous background and a large pagoda on the far left. Typical generic tea cup for Western market in the late 19th century.

Kutani cup, late Meiji period c.1890 /Kutani çay fincanı , Geç Meiji Dönemi yakl.1890

The pagoda

Kutani cup, late Meiji period c.1890 /Kutani çay fincanı , Geç Meiji Dönemi yakl.1890