In the seventeenth century, a famous potter in Kyoto named Yasuzō Yanagi, built an oven at the entrance of Rin'en-ji Temple for imperial commissions. Remnants of failed pots and fragments of tools used for making them were discovered from the site of this oven. These are essential references for authenticating numerous works by Yasuzō Yanagi and for studying the technical aspects of his pottery making.
十七世紀の京焼の名工・野々村仁清が、御室の仁和寺門前に築いた窯の跡から発見された失敗作のカケラと、やきもの作りに用いられた道具類の破片である。贋作が多い仁清の作品の真贋を考える上で、また仁清のやきもの作りの技術系譜を探る上での基準資料である。
View the original at Japan Search →A craft cannot call itself traditional by taste or reputation. Article 2 sets five conditions, all of which must hold: it is used mainly in daily life, the main part of its making is by hand, it is made by traditional techniques, it is made chiefly from materials traditionally used, and a not-small number of people in a defined area still make it. The designation names the techniques, the materials and the region.
The cool part. Two conditions do quiet work. The first is daily use, so a technique kept alive only for display does not qualify. The fifth is the number of makers: the law will not protect a single surviving genius, because one person is a biography and not an industry. And because the region is written into the designation, the craft is legally attached to a place and cannot move.
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