神山易久 「風」 炻器 信楽 平成期

Kohyama Yasuhisa is a pioneering ceramic artist whose works exhibit compositional strength, a simplicity of sculptural form, and a skilled control of firing. Nothing but the essentials remain, and what remains touches on the essence of the Japanese aesthetic of reduction. The upward-flaring form of this work, doubled by the sienna-colored mark left on the surface by the raging fire itself, evokes a strong “wind,” as the title also suggests. This is the largest and most powerful pentagonal body to be found in Kohyama’s Wind Series. Such a wind could certainly move clouds, bringing rain—long understood in Japanese culture as a blessing from the dragon.