An exquisite incense container by Matsumura Jun, crafted in 2025—a work whose beauty extends even to the shadows it casts. Its swirling white, dynamic form, leaves a striking impression, capturing both motion and stillness in a single sculptural gesture. The work is housed in an original wooden box titled “Shifting Qualia C ↔ I.” Matsumura is known for designing his own boxes, each marked individually with a hand‑painted kanji. For this piece, he inscribed the character KAN (meaning “feeling” or “sensation”), echoing the emotional resonance of the form itself. This work is 9.8 x 9 x 6 cm (3 7/8 × 3 1/2 × 2 3/8 inches). It directly from him at the end of 2025 and it is in excellent condition.
Matsumura Jun was born in Chiba Prefecture on the outskirts of Tokyo in 1986. He graduated from the University of South Alabama in 2010, and graduated the Tajimi Municipal Ceramics Research Facility in 2015, then went on to the Utatsuyama Research Facility in Kanazawa, leaving there in 2018. His transcendent, innovative forms have set the heart of the ceramic world racing and he has been awarded at the exhibition Tradition and Innovation-Japanese Ceramics Now as well as the 3rd Triennale of KOGEI in Kanazawa and have been presented at TEFAF in Maastricht, Art Fair Tokyo in 2018, Art Collect in London and Art Kyoto in 2019.
