26136 Living National Treasure Manji Inoue Tenmoku Nasu Kaoru

Height: 13.6cm
Diameter 9.2cm

As a leading expert in wheel-throwing, Manji studied under Sakaida Kakiemon XII and has led the way in Arita white porcelain with his outstanding skills and vast experience. In Japanese pottery, chance elements such as distortion and kiln changes are often incorporated and used to add to the appeal of the work, but with white porcelain, perfection is required, with not even the slightest imperfection allowed, not only in form but also in pinholes and impurities. In Arita, a region with a tradition of overglaze porcelain such as red-glazed and Nabeshima porcelain, Manji, who has mastered the all-white world of white porcelain, created this eggplant incense burner to mark his 70th birthday, using purple as his theme color.