A spectacular vase coated in thick ash by Tanimoro Kei enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Iga Mentori Kabin. It is 26 x 9 x 29 cm (10-1/4 x 3-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Tanimoto Kei was born the son of Iga artist Tanimoto Kosei in 1948. In 1970 he apprenticed under Hineno Tatsuzo in Mino, and in his youth he experimented widely in many mediums, design, and even spent a few years in Paris learning the art of etching. He returned to Japn in 1977 to devote himself to the plastic arts.
