Tea utensils, tea ceremony tools, incense holder, trunk lacquer, umbrella, Kawase-omote complete work

[First Generation Omote Kan (real name Bintaro)] Lacquer artist from Kyoto
1904 (Meiji 37) - 1969 (Showa 44)
At the end of the Edo period, he inherited the techniques of the Omote school of Kyoto lacquering, whose founder was Kimura Omotesai, from his grandfather Sentaro.
He studied under Suzuki Omotesaku I (Omotesai II), who inherited the techniques of the Omotesaku school, and inherited the orthodox painting techniques such as Honkataji, Tamuke-nuri, Nunozuri, and Kiji Tamuke-nuri, and took the name of the first Omotesaku.
After the death of the first master, his eldest son Atsushi (1933-2007) and second son Isao (1937-) both took on the name Omotekan and established the Omotekan Workshop.
[2nd Generation Kawase Omote Kan (real name Isao)]
He inherited the business from his grandfather Sentaro and his father Bintaro (the first Omote Kan), and is the head of Kyoto Lacquerware and is involved in the production of Kyoto lacquerware.
Born in 1937 (Showa 12)
Kyoto lacquerware traditional craftsman
Kyoto Prefecture Outstanding Craftsman (Kyoto Master Craftsman)
[3rd Generation Kawase Omote Kan (real name Kawase Atsushi)] Pen name 2nd Generation Higashiyama Omote Kan
Born in Kyoto in 1933 (Showa 8) as the eldest son of the first representative, Kan.
In 1993, he participated in the restoration of the sacred treasures at the Ise Grand Shrine's Shikinen Gosengu ceremony. He was awarded the title of "Kyoto Master Craftsman" by the Ministry of International Trade and Industry, Kyoto Prefecture, and "Contemporary Master Craftsman" by the Minister of Health, Labor and Welfare. He served as a director of the Japan Traditional Crafts Association, a professor of Kyoto Lacquerware at the Kyoto College of Traditional Crafts, and a member of the Nitten Exhibition.
Passed away in 1995
While inheriting traditional Kyoto lacquering techniques, he is also engaged in creative activities that are in tune with the modern era, such as creating new lacquerware using new materials.
[Current Kawase Omotekan (real name Kawase Tadashi)] Pen name: 3rd generation Higashiyama Omotekan<> Born in 1964 in San Francisco, USA, raised in Kyoto
1980 (Showa 55) Studied under his father, the second Tozan Omote Kan (Atsushi), while attending night school.
1981, 1981 Kyoto City Industrial Testing Institute, Lacquerware Course (Chief instructor: Kyoto Lacquerware Master Masaharu Yamane)
1985, Kyoto City Industrial Research Institute, Makie Kaso (Chief instructor: Lacquer artist Kyohei Mizuuchi)
1987: Graduated from Kyoto College of Art and Design as a ceramic artist (now Kyoto University of Art and Design)
1991: Kyoto City Industrial Testing Center Makie Kaso (Chief lecturer: lacquer artist Toshito Hattori), Kyoto Lacquerware Store Chairman's Award (hereafter Tetralogy, Chairman's Award)
1992: Selected for the Kyoto Exhibition (and has been selected twice since then)
1999: Organized the Kyoto Emerging Artists Exhibition (held nationwide about 20 times over 7 years by a group of young tea ceremony utensil artists)
2003: Certified Kyoto Lacquer Traditional Craftsman by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry at the Kyoto Takashimaya Art and Crafts Salon Classic
2004: Participated in the design of furnishings for the Kyoto State Guest House (as a craftsman), suffered a cerebral infarction and developed right-sided paralysis (since then, mainly worked with his left hand)
2007 Heisei 19th year 3rd generation Higashiyama front complete succession
Lecturer at the Aoyama Green Academy Kyoto Lacquerware Lecture (hosted by the International Tea Ceremony Association and Urasenke)
2008: Restoration of the Imperial Treasure Cross for the Ise Shrine Ceremony (2008) (work for 20 years later has already been accepted)
Hakata Daimaru Art Gallery, Tokyo Daimaru Art Gallery, Fukuyama Tenmaya Art Gallery, Broadcasting Hall
2009: Name successor to Daimaru Shinsaibashi Art Gallery, Okayama Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nagata Chaho
2010 Kyoto Shimbun Sophia Project: Today's Painting Park at Otsuka Elementary School; Ninnaji Temple Publications: Kyoto Painting Article; Successor Shop Jujiya Yamagata Store Art Gallery; Gallery Kai; Tokyo Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Gallery; Ryumondo; Ono Art; Yokkaichi Kintetsu Art Gallery; Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery
2011: Name succession to Takasaki Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokkaichi Kintetsu Matsusaka Branch Store, Kobe Sogo Art Gallery, Takaoka Yamatoga Gallery, Yonago Takashimaya Art Gallery
2012: Solo exhibitions at Wakayama Kintetsu Art Gallery, Houeido, Daimaru Shinsaibashi Art Gallery, Okayama Takashimaya Art Gallery, Nihonbashi Takashimaya Art Gallery (two-person exhibition), Kyoto Shimbun Publishing Center, "Unexpectedly Unknown Kyoto", Kyoto Lacquerware essay published
2013 Solo exhibitions at Takasaki Takashimaya Art Gallery, Yokohama Takashimaya Art Gallery, Kyoto Takashimaya Art Gallery, Gifu Takashimaya Art Gallery, Enno Gallery, Yamako, Tankosha Publishing, featured in the article "Today's Masterpieces for Tea Masters"
2014 Solo exhibition at Gallery Kawatoku, Parc Avenue, Kyoto lacquerware lectures at the Omotesenke Chiba Prefecture Youth Division Soukai and the Omotesenke Yamaguchi Prefecture Youth Division Soukai, and an article on Rikyu's Aesthetics: Shin-nuri Naka-natsume published in the March issue of Waraku by Shogakukan
Published by Tankosha, Kyoto Tea Ceremony Makers Directory, Photos and Articles
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size	Approx. width 13.8 x diameter 2.9 x height 2.9 cm
author	Kawase Omote Kansaku (lacquer artist)
box	Wooden box

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