[Tea utensils/Tea ceremony utensils lid rest] Blue and white dragonfly by Shoami Takano, Warakuan

Size: Approx. diameter 5.8 x height 6cm
Artist: Takano Shoami, Warakuan
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[2nd generation]
1930: First generation Shoami founded
Born in Kyoto in 1941
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1966
Learned the trade under his teacher, the first Shoami
In 1980, he held a 50th anniversary exhibition together with the first generation.
In 1993, the second generation
Currently in production at Obaku Tosho Shoami Studio in Higashiyama, Japan.
Mainly produces porcelain matcha and sencha tea utensils with blue and white porcelain, auspicious porcelain, colored porcelain, and kouchin porcelain.
Obaku Potter "The studio is in Higashiyama, Kyoto"
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Box: Wooden box

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["Akitsu" is an old name for dragonflies]
[Akitsushima, Akitsushima (Akitsushima, Akizushima) is the old name of Honshu, Japan. It later came to refer to the whole of Japan.]
"It's in the myth of the creation of the country..."
[Manyoshu: Emperor Jomei]
In Yamato, there are many mountains, but the most beautiful is Mount Kagu. When I climbed it and looked out over the country, I saw the plains and the sea with rising smoke.
The land of Yamato, the beautiful land of Akizushima,