A tall thin lidded vessel made to store fresh water for the Maccha Tea Ceremony by legendary Hagi Potter Yamato Yasuo enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hagi-yaki Mizusashi. It is 12.5 cm (5 inches) diameter, 24 cm (9-1/2 inches) tall and in excellent condition with the original ceramic lid enclosed in a cloth pouch.
Yamato Yasuo was born in 1933 to a long line of Hagi potters. He learned under his father Harunobu and grandfather Shoroku rising to become one of Hagi’s most well respected artists. He was first awarded at the Nitten in 1959, and took the West Japan Craft Exhibition Excellence Award the following year. He was collected by the Kamakura Museum of Modern Art in 1961, the first of a great many museums to acquire his work including the British Museum, Honolulu, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum of Art, San Francisco Oriental Museum of Art as well as the collection of Ise Shrine, Yakushiji Temple and the Imperial Household. He has been named an important cultural asset of Yamaguchi Prefecture (ken Juyo Mukei Bunkazai) and in 2007 received the Order of the Rising Sun, from his imperial Majesty.
