Plate with Kutani-style landscape

Object Details

• Artist

  Kinoshita Yoshinori (Japan, 1898-1996)

• Label

  This plate employs the rich palette of green, yellow, and purple enamels associated since the seventeenth century with the Kutani style of porcelain. Kinoshita Yoshinori and Hazama Inosuke (1895-1977) founded the ceramic arts division of the Issuikai artists' association. The two artists began using Kutani-style colors to render the pictorial subject matter of modern oil painting on porcelain.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Contemporary Porcelain from Japan (November 21, 1993 to September 5, 1994)

• Origin

  Tokyo, Japan

• Credit Line

  Gift of the Japan Foundation

• Type

  Vessel

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1930s, 1990s

• Name

  Kinoshita, Yoshinori

• Place

  Tokyo, Japan

• Topic

  Contemporary Art, Landscapes, Porcelain, Art, Showa era (1926 - 1989), Japanese Art, Ceramics

• Culture

  Japanese

• Object Type

  Vessels (containers)