A Masterpiece Mid-century sculptural vase by Avant-garde Kumakura Junkichi enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Oribe-yu Kaki (Oribe glazed Vase).It is 23 x 23 x 18 cm (9 x 9 x 7-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.This is a superb example of work from the late 50s and early 60s espoused by the Sodeisha movement.
Kumakura Junkichi (1920-1985) began working in ceramics in the 1940s, his works submitted to innumerable National and International Exhibitions including the Japan Art Festival, New York and the international Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Florence Italy. He also submitted to the Brussels World Exposition and helped design murals for the World Exposition Osaka. At the International Ceramics Exhibition, Prague in 1962 he took a silver prize. He was also often exhibited and is in the permanent collection of the Japanese National Museum of Modern Art as well as the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Along with Suzuki Osamu, Hikaru Yamada and Yagi Kazuo, Junkichi was one of the founding members of the influential Sodeisha (Crawling Through Mud Association), a group of revolutionary post war ceramic artists whose influence remains strong today.
