Tatsuyuki Kawai

Tatsuyuki Kawai trained at Iwai Kiln in Tottori Prefecture and now makes pottery at Sarukoda Kiln in Shiga Prefecture.

They create tableware with an awareness of "beauty of utility," the idea that a tool is only beautiful when it is used.

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He is a folk art and pottery artist of Kiyomizu ware, whose great-granduncle was Kawai Kanjiro, who was involved in the Mingei Movement, an activity promoted by Yanagi Muneyoshi, Kawai Kanjiro, and others, which worked to introduce folk art to the world.

Our store mainly carries Kawai's pottery, mainly items made using a technique called "neriage."

The front and back have the same pattern, which is a characteristic of the "neriage" technique.

It looks similar to slipware,
While slipware has patterns added later,
Neriage is a puzzle-like technique in which clay of different colors is combined to create patterns.
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Therefore, the back side has the same pattern as the front side.