Overglaze color enamels are generally called iro-e (literally “color picture”) in the terminology customarily used for porcelain decoration of the Edo period. This set of teabowls is a fine example of Yohei III’s skilled use of the technique, which is identified on this set’s box lid with the alternate phrasing “porcelain with color painting” (jisaiga). Distinct from the way overglaze colors were used in Kakiemon ware from Arita, his designs and applications show a consciousness of porcelain decoration of the Qing dynasty. Here, he combines Chinese models with a sensibility taken from Kyoto ware precedents, including painting with powdered gold (kinrande). The colors used in the bowls are as follows: blue, black, gold, white, light green, green, and pink. The blue appears only inside the footring, as a double band of underglaze color. The black iron, used for stems and leaf veins, is painted over the glaze. The gold, also painted over the glaze, is used for leaves and the centers of flowers, for solid, glossy lines defining detail, or as a semimatte ground. The white of the peony flower is built up to a low relief over the glaze. Yohei has incised lines of varying widths into the pigment, carving away to the bowl’s surface, to differentiate individual petals and their rippled shapes. The light and dark greens, as well as the pink, are painted over the glaze.
View the original at Cleveland Museum of Art →Unusually for a Japanese statute it opens with a preamble, which states that finding joy in creating culture and living among it is an unchanging wish of people, and that culture contributes to world peace. Article 2 then sets the principles: the autonomy of those who make culture must be fully respected, and their creativity, standing and capacity considered.
The cool part. Article 2, paragraph 3 is the line worth reading twice. It says that creating and receiving culture is a right people are born with, and requires an environment in which citizens can appreciate, participate and create regardless of age, disability, economic situation, or the area they live in. Four barriers named in statute, one of which is your postcode. It puts the arts in the same grammatical register as infrastructure. Not a subsidy argued for each year, a standing obligation.
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