A heavy stack of ceramic bowls in the style of Heian to Kamakura period collapsed kiln ware by ceramic maniac Inayoshi Osamu. The encrustation at the top is an actual excavated chunk of 1000 year old pottery, and the artist views this work as a statement on the continuity of potters throughout the long ceramic history of Japan. Simply placing himself on the timeline from those many eons ago and into future generations. The piece is one solid fusion of thrown bowls with the addition of the kiln shard, and measures roughly 45 cm (18 inches) tall, 17 cm (7 inches) diameter. It is accompanied by a signed wooden placard titled Kasane sara, directly from the artist.
Inayoshi Osamu was born in Toyohashi City in 1976, and graduated the Seto pottery school in 2002, the same year he was acknowledged for excellence at the 56th Seto Municipal Art Exhibition. He set up his own studio in 2007, garnering his first of many prizes at the the Oribe no Kokoro (heart of Oribe) Ceramic Exhibition. His unique textures and glaze techniques soon won him acclaim both in Japan and abroad , and he began exhibiting with vigor both domestically and abroad.
