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Dish
Shimaoka Tatsuzo, born 1919 - died 2007 - Enlarge image
Dish
- Place of origin:
Mashiko, Japan (made)
- Date:
1985 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Shimaoka Tatsuzo, born 1919 - died 2007 (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Stoneware with underglaze iron painting over rope-impressed and slip-filled ground
- Museum number:
FE.30-1985
- Gallery location:
Ceramics Study Galleries, Asia & Europe, room 137, case 23, shelf 8
This large dish demonstrates to good effect the remarkable skill in rope-impressed decoration that Shimaoka has developed over the years. He has combined three different kinds of patterning with the use of white slip - which fills the rope indentations - and boldly calligraphic underglaze iron painting. As the leading student of Hamada Shoji (1894-1978), Shimaoka is widely regarded as Japan's foremost potter of the Folk Craft (Mingei) Movement. His fascination with rope-impressed decoration is partly due to the fact that his father was a rope-maker. It can also be explained by the proximity to Mashiko, where he lives and works, of numerous archaeological sites dating from the Jomon period (10,500-300 BC), where earthenwares decorated with a rich variety of rope-impressed designs have been found.
