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Nakajima Hiroshi Living National Treasure Celadon Guinomi Sake Cup
Nakajima Hiroshi Living National Treasure Celadon Guinomi Sake Cup
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Experience Authentic Japanese Celadon Ceramics with this Nakajima Hiroshi Celadon Guinomi. This Sake Cup serves as a Living National Treasure artwork and collectible vessel, featuring luminous jade-green seiji glaze and refined crazing patterns—a must-have for any ceramics connoisseur seeking museum-quality celadon and important cultural heritage.
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🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Nakajima Hiroshi (中島宏) — Living National Treasure (人間国宝)
• Technique: Celadon (青磁) — jade-green reduction-fired glaze
• Era: Contemporary (2000s)
• Origin: Saga Prefecture (Arita region), Japan
• Dimensions: Dia 6.9cm × H 4.8cm (2.7" × 1.9")
• Box: Tomobako with cloth wrapper and pamphlet (共箱共布・栞)
• Condition: Excellent — no chips, cracks, or repairs
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🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]
Celadon may be the oldest continuously pursued ideal in ceramic history. From the kilns of Song dynasty China through the courts of Goryeo Korea and into the porcelain traditions of Kyushu, potters have spent a millennium chasing a single color — the green of jade, rendered in glass. Nakajima Hiroshi devoted his life to this pursuit and was recognized in 2007 as a Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property, the designation commonly known as Living National Treasure.
This guinomi distills decades of research into a vessel small enough to rest in the palm. The celadon glaze pools with extraordinary translucency, its jade-green depth shifting with the angle of light. Across the surface, a fine crazing network — the natural result of differential cooling between glaze and clay — creates a texture that catches sake and light alike, each pour deepening the cup's character over time.
The unglazed foot ring reveals the red-brown clay body beneath, a deliberate exposure that grounds the ethereal glaze in earthen reality. This tension between the luminous surface and the raw earth beneath defines Nakajima's mature work — transcendence rooted in material honesty.
*"The color does not sit on the surface. It lives within the glaze, as light lives within water."*
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🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]
**Living National Treasure (人間国宝)**: Nakajima Hiroshi received this designation — Japan's highest honor for a living artist — in 2007, specifically for his mastery of celadon. The title recognizes not only technical achievement but the bearer's role in preserving and transmitting an intangible cultural property to future generations.
**Celadon Glaze Chemistry**: The jade-green color results from iron oxide fired in a reduction atmosphere, where oxygen is starved from the kiln. The precise shade depends on iron concentration, kiln temperature, and the duration and depth of reduction — variables that make each firing an act of calibrated uncertainty.
**Crazing as Aesthetic**: While Western ceramic traditions often treat crazing as a defect, East Asian celadon traditions embrace it as an integral element. The crazing network — called kannyu (貫入) — deepens over years of use as tea or sake seeps into the microscopic fissures, gradually transforming the surface into a record of the vessel's life.
**The Arita Celadon Tradition**: Saga Prefecture's ceramic heritage stretches back to the early seventeenth century, when Korean potters brought continental techniques to Kyushu. Nakajima's celadon work represents the culmination of four centuries of refinement within this region, pushing the tradition to new levels of translucency and formal clarity.
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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
【基本情報】
• 作家：中島宏（人間国宝）
• 技法：青磁
• 時代：現代（2000年代）
• 産地：佐賀県（有田）
• 寸法：口径 約6.9cm × 高さ 約4.8cm
• 付属：共箱・共布・栞
• 状態：良好 — 傷、欠け、修理なし
【解説】
中島宏は2007年に青磁の技法で重要無形文化財保持者（人間国宝）に認定された、日本を代表する陶芸家です。宋代中国に源を発する青磁の伝統を、佐賀県有田の地で現代に昇華させた功績は計り知れません。
本作のぐい吞は、中島青磁の真髄を凝縮した一品です。翡翠のような透明感を湛えた青緑の釉薬は、還元焼成によって生まれる繊細な発色であり、光の角度によって刻々と表情を変えます。表面を覆う貫入の網目は、酒を注ぐたびに深まり、使い手とともに育つ器の証です。
高台に露出する赤褐色の素地は、天上的な青磁釉と大地の土との対比を際立たせ、中島の成熟した作風を端的に物語っています。人間国宝の手による、手のひらの中の至芸です。
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🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
*A thousand years of pursuit, held in the palm — jade light, earthen truth.*
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🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Nakajima Hiroshi (中島宏) — Living National Treasure (人間国宝)
• Technique: Celadon (青磁) — jade-green reduction-fired glaze
• Era: Contemporary (2000s)
• Origin: Saga Prefecture (Arita region), Japan
• Dimensions: Dia 6.9cm × H 4.8cm (2.7" × 1.9")
• Box: Tomobako with cloth wrapper and pamphlet (共箱共布・栞)
• Condition: Excellent — no chips, cracks, or repairs
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]
Celadon may be the oldest continuously pursued ideal in ceramic history. From the kilns of Song dynasty China through the courts of Goryeo Korea and into the porcelain traditions of Kyushu, potters have spent a millennium chasing a single color — the green of jade, rendered in glass. Nakajima Hiroshi devoted his life to this pursuit and was recognized in 2007 as a Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property, the designation commonly known as Living National Treasure.
This guinomi distills decades of research into a vessel small enough to rest in the palm. The celadon glaze pools with extraordinary translucency, its jade-green depth shifting with the angle of light. Across the surface, a fine crazing network — the natural result of differential cooling between glaze and clay — creates a texture that catches sake and light alike, each pour deepening the cup's character over time.
The unglazed foot ring reveals the red-brown clay body beneath, a deliberate exposure that grounds the ethereal glaze in earthen reality. This tension between the luminous surface and the raw earth beneath defines Nakajima's mature work — transcendence rooted in material honesty.
*"The color does not sit on the surface. It lives within the glaze, as light lives within water."*
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]
**Living National Treasure (人間国宝)**: Nakajima Hiroshi received this designation — Japan's highest honor for a living artist — in 2007, specifically for his mastery of celadon. The title recognizes not only technical achievement but the bearer's role in preserving and transmitting an intangible cultural property to future generations.
**Celadon Glaze Chemistry**: The jade-green color results from iron oxide fired in a reduction atmosphere, where oxygen is starved from the kiln. The precise shade depends on iron concentration, kiln temperature, and the duration and depth of reduction — variables that make each firing an act of calibrated uncertainty.
**Crazing as Aesthetic**: While Western ceramic traditions often treat crazing as a defect, East Asian celadon traditions embrace it as an integral element. The crazing network — called kannyu (貫入) — deepens over years of use as tea or sake seeps into the microscopic fissures, gradually transforming the surface into a record of the vessel's life.
**The Arita Celadon Tradition**: Saga Prefecture's ceramic heritage stretches back to the early seventeenth century, when Korean potters brought continental techniques to Kyushu. Nakajima's celadon work represents the culmination of four centuries of refinement within this region, pushing the tradition to new levels of translucency and formal clarity.
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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
【基本情報】
• 作家：中島宏（人間国宝）
• 技法：青磁
• 時代：現代（2000年代）
• 産地：佐賀県（有田）
• 寸法：口径 約6.9cm × 高さ 約4.8cm
• 付属：共箱・共布・栞
• 状態：良好 — 傷、欠け、修理なし
【解説】
中島宏は2007年に青磁の技法で重要無形文化財保持者（人間国宝）に認定された、日本を代表する陶芸家です。宋代中国に源を発する青磁の伝統を、佐賀県有田の地で現代に昇華させた功績は計り知れません。
本作のぐい吞は、中島青磁の真髄を凝縮した一品です。翡翠のような透明感を湛えた青緑の釉薬は、還元焼成によって生まれる繊細な発色であり、光の角度によって刻々と表情を変えます。表面を覆う貫入の網目は、酒を注ぐたびに深まり、使い手とともに育つ器の証です。
高台に露出する赤褐色の素地は、天上的な青磁釉と大地の土との対比を際立たせ、中島の成熟した作風を端的に物語っています。人間国宝の手による、手のひらの中の至芸です。
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🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
*A thousand years of pursuit, held in the palm — jade light, earthen truth.*
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