A rare charred bowl of paper-thin clay by rising female star Nakai Namika enclosed in the original signed wooden box titled Maku (Membrane or Outer-skin). It is 19 x 17 x 11.5 cm (7-1/2 x 7 x 4-1/2 inches) and is in excellent condition.
Nakai Namika was born in Sapporo, on the Northern Island of Hokkaido, in 1993.She studied at both the Sydney University of Technology as well as the Danish National School of Fine Arts, graduating from the Hokkaido University of Education in 2016. Continuing her education she graduated the Tajimi City Ceramic Design Laboratory in 2019, and progressive Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop in 2022. Awards have quickly piled up, with her first prize at the Kanazawa City Crafts Exhibition in 2020, award for Excellence at the Kasama Pottery Grand Prize Exhibition as well as being awarded at the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop in 2021. 2022, she garnered Kanazawa University of Fine Arts and Crafts President Award at the 78th Kanazawa City Crafts Exhibition as well as again the Kanazawa Utatsuyama Craft Workshop Prize. She was selected for the 54th Woman's association of ceramic art in 2020, the 9th Kikuchi Biennale in 2021, the Synergy Ten held at the Kyocera Museum of Art in Kyoto in 2023.
