A Sake cup created from two layers of mixed colored porcelain clay by Kusaba Eight enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Neriawase Guinomi. It is 7.5 cm (3 inches) diameter, 5 cm (2 inches) tall and in excellent condition.
Kusaba Eight was born in Arita in 1982, son of the prodigal Kusaba Yuji, who bagan working the family kiln the year Eight turned 3. Eight as a personality is quite intense, and quick to smile. He quite school and joined the Japanese Air Force. In 2000 he moved to New York, returning to Japan in 2006 where he worked in a music production company in design and videography. He moved back to Arita in 2015, taking up residence under his father at the family kiln.
