Colors of Kyoto

The Seifu Yohei Ceramic Studio

Shinya Maezaki, Sinead Vilbar

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English

D Giles Ltd
01 November 2023

Ceramic arts, pottery, glass

Series: Cleveland Masterwork

New volume in the Cleveland Masterwork Series focuses on a studio of important late nineteenth through early twentieth-century Japanese ceramic artists.

This is the first comprehensive look in English at the Seifu Yohei Ceramic Studio in Kyoto, from the Meiji period (18681912) to the mid Showa period (192689), the James and Christine Heusinger Collection at the Cleveland Museum of Art as its core material. The principal essay provides a biography of Seifu Yohei III, the star of the studio and the first ceramist to be named an Imperial Household Artist, as well as an overview of the studio that contextualises it in the world of literati painting, sencha (steeped green tea) and international trade. A second essay offers a brief history of porcelain production in Kyoto, as well as a discussion of objects produced by the Seifu studio for sencha. This catalogue of a hundred works examines the wide variety of forms, decorative techniques and glazes that made the studio's works unique.

AUTHORS: Shinya Maezaki is a professor at Kyoto Women's University.

Sinéad Vilbar is curator of Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

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Features the Seifu Yohei Ceramic Studio in Kyoto from the Meiji period (1868-1912) to early Showa period (1926-89) .

Focuses on the domestic market vs. international market, modernization vs. Westernization, and China as a cultural model .

Biographical essay on Seifu Yohei III .

Essay on sencha .

Great photography of Seifu works displaying a great variety of techniques, glazes, and forms

160 colour illustrations

By: Shinya Maezaki, Sinead Vilbar
Imprint: D Giles Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 216mm,
ISBN: 9781913875541
ISBN 10: 1913875547
Series: Cleveland Masterwork
Pages: 216
Publication Date: 01 November 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Director’s Foreword; Preface: Pursuit of Perfection by Marjorie L. Williams; Acknowledgements; Establishing Ceramics of Imperial Japan: The Life and Art of Seifū Yohei III by Shinya Maezaki; Porcelain in Kyoto by Sinéad Vilbar; Entries by Sinéad Vilbar; Appendix: Seals and signatures by Sinéad Vilbar; Concordance of Terms by Sinéad Vilbar; Bibliography; Index; The Cleveland Museum of Art Board of Trustees

Shinya Maezaki is a professor at Kyoto Women's University Sinéad Vilbar is curator of Japanese Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art