A fabulous chawan by Inayoshi Osamu enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Hikidashi Guro Chawan featuring dark glaze spilling over the rim and running through the stone textured clefts. The bulk is covered in earthy green with raw clay at the base. Osamu is very low production, and very selective of what he allows out into the world, and I am proud to be able to offer this. It is 12 cm (5 inches) diameter, 10.5 cm (4 inches) tall and in excellent condition, 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.
