{"title":"Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之)","description":"\u003cp\u003eWorks by the ceramic artist Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之, 1938–2024) currently available at Antique Liquor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"al-maker-intro\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eA potter born in Mashiko, Tochigi Prefecture. Matsubara studied under Kimura Ichiro and Yagi Kazuo and built the Yatake Kiln in Mashiko in 1961. Representative works are held by the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCareer and awards: \u003c\/strong\u003e1961: built the Yatake Kiln \/ 1967: Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival Award (crafts) \/ 1974: moved the kiln to Kitanaka, Mashiko \/ 1990: Encouragement Prize, International Ceramics Exhibition\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhotos of the seals and signatures are in our guide “\u003ca href=\"\/en\/blogs\/japanese-crafts\/potters-seals-and-signatures#m-matsubara-naoyuki\"\u003ePotters’ Seals and Signatures\u003c\/a\u003e”.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"462","title":"Artist Represented in Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art Collection, Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之), Iron-Glaze Arabesque Tea Bowl, Japanese-Style Old Fashioned Glass, Aged Sake Vessel, Studied Under Yagi Kazuo and Kimura Ichiro #462","description":"\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"1\"\u003eThis tea bowl with an iron-underglaze arabesque pattern is created by Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之, 1938–2024), a ceramic artist who studied under both \u003ca href=\"\/en\/products\/464\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKimura Ichiro\u003c\/a\u003e, a master of \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mashiko-ware\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMashiko ware\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/search?q=%22%E5%85%AB%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%AB%22\u0026amp;type=product\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eYagi Kazuo\u003c\/a\u003e, a master of avant-garde ceramics who led \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/sodeisha\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSodeisha\u003c\/a\u003e, sophisticatedly fusing the rustic folk-art clay texture of Mashiko with the modern craft aesthetics of Kyoto. It is an authentic work by an accomplished artist whose high public acclaim includes winning the Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival Award in 1967 and an Encouragement Award at the International Ceramic Art Exhibition in 1990, and whose representative works are housed in the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art. On the front of the lid of the accompanying dedicated paulownia wooden box (tomobako), the handwritten calligraphy reads \"Iron-Glaze Arabesque Tea Bowl,\" and on the reverse side, \"Naoyuki\" along with Matsubara's signature seal. It can be deduced as a work produced during the artist's mature period between the 1980s and 1990s (late Showa 50s to early Heisei era), after establishing Matsubara's atelier in Kitanaka, Mashiko Town following Matsubara's apprenticeship in Kyoto, when Matsubara established Matsubara's unique arabesque expression combining iron-brush painting rich in tonal gradations with Namishiro glaze (traditional white glaze) and reduction firing unique to Mashiko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"2\"\u003eAnalyzing the design details of this piece, the Namishiro glaze applied over the Mashiko clay forms a serene, matte-textured white ground with a subtle bluish tint through reduction firing, which strictly controls oxygen in the kiln. Delicate pinholes and craze marks (kannyu) are gracefully carved into the glazed surface, bringing forth silk-like, moist shadows depending on the light angle. Over this warm ground, iron-brush painting using iron-sand pigment is executed with clean, unhesitating strokes that evoke the true essence of avant-garde ceramics. The powerful brushwork reveals deep scorched blacks caused by pigment accumulation alongside soft tonal variations born from dry-brush strokes, enclosing dynamic energy within the surface. The body is formed into a cylindrical shape with moderate distortion and width that comfortably settles in the hands, while the unglazed area around the foot ring exposes the rustic and robust clay texture containing sand grains unique to Mashiko clay. Beside the foot, the round seal stamp \"Nao\" (直), Matsubara's mark, is deeply impressed in the exposed clay, asserting its overwhelming perfection as a handcrafted, one-of-a-kind work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-path-to-node=\"3\"\u003eBoasting generous dimensions with a substantial presence and breadth, measuring approx. 8.4 cm in height and approx. 13.9 cm in width (mouth diameter), our shop proposes this work as a dignified \"Japanese-style old fashioned glass (Japanese-style Western liquor vessel)\" for luxuriously savoring aged spirits, vintage whisky, matured sake, or liquor on the rocks with large ice spheres, tailored to modern refined lifestyles. The moist white ground of the Namishiro glaze, the fluid iron painting, and the deep glaze quality inside the bowl beautifully enhance the amber hues of poured aged liquors and the clear glint of ice. A masterpiece fusing Mashiko folk-art tradition with Kyoto avant-garde ceramic expression, this piece allows one to savor the true essence of traditional Japanese craft through both sight and touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[An Introduction to Naoyuki Matsubara by His Teacher, Ichiro Kimura: On Naoyuki Matsubara]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eNaoyuki Matsubara is a mid-career artist among the potters of Mashiko.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHe has been working in ceramics for nearly twenty years. In 1967, he received the Art Festival Prize in the Crafts Division of the Tochigi Prefectural Art Festival. Until then, he belonged to no association or group and did not submit his work to exhibitions. Instead, he worked at an unhurried pace, never rushing his creations, and at times indulged in poetic sentiment. His works carry a certain expansive, boundless dignity.At first glance, there is nothing in his work that is unusual or designed to surprise. Yet the more closely one looks, the more one senses an honest, unforced “reach” and “largeness.” The works themselves speak of who Matsubara is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eHis challenge as an artist now is how he will bring his work to completion from here on.\u0026nbsp;I am one of those watching his progress with particular anticipation. Matsubara studied for many years in Kyoto as a leading disciple of Kazuo Yagi, a master of the avant-garde in contemporary ceramics. He is, so to speak, the only potter in Mashiko who has trained in the world of modern craft.I eagerly look forward to the day when the two strands of his work, the old and the new, come together as one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eI believe that Matsubara is an artist capable of truly accomplishing his work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIchiro Kimura（1915-1978）\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"4\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/maker-matsubara-naoyuki\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMatsubara Naoyuki\u003c\/a\u003e (松原直之, 1938–2024)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"5\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist's Representative Career Highlights:\u003c\/strong\u003e Studied under Kimura Ichiro and Yagi Kazuo. Opened Yatake Kiln in 1961. Won the Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival Award (Crafts Division) in 1967 and the International Ceramic Art Exhibition Encouragement Award in 1990.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"6\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublic Collections: \u003c\/strong\u003eMashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (Collection includes representative work \"Black Pottery: Crested Kingfisher\", etc.)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"7\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduction Period: \u003c\/strong\u003e1980s–1990s (Late Showa 50s–early Heisei era)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very Good (No chips, no cracks)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"9\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccessories: \u003c\/strong\u003eNone\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"10\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial: \u003c\/strong\u003eCeramic \/ Pottery (Mashiko clay, Namishiro glaze, iron-underglaze painting)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"11\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003eHeight approx. 8.4 cm, Width (mouth diameter) approx. 13.9 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli data-path-to-node=\"12\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e The items provided by our shop were produced a very long time ago and are all listed as pre-owned items. Please understand and confirm the age-related changes before considering your purchase.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease check the photos:\u003c\/strong\u003e We prepare every description with great care, but errors may still remain in the text. Please examine the photos carefully before purchasing. Where the photos and the description differ, please take the photos as the basis for the product information.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Antique Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67598474903739,"sku":null,"price":41000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/0510\/8923\/files\/IMG_3731_result.jpg?v=1790765601"},{"product_id":"528","title":"Artist Represented in Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art Collection, Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival Award Winner, Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之), Yunomi Teacup, Japanese-Style Old Fashioned Glass, Aged Sake Vessel, Studied Under Yagi Kazuo and Kimura Ichiro #528","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis yunomi teacup is the work of Matsubara Naoyuki (松原直之, 1938–2024), a potter who studied under both \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/maker-kimura-ichiro\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eKimura Ichiro\u003c\/a\u003e, whom the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art presented in an exhibition titled \"The Modernist of Mashiko,\" and \u003ca href=\"\/en\/search?q=%22%E5%85%AB%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%80%E5%A4%AB%22\u0026amp;type=product\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eYagi Kazuo\u003c\/a\u003e, a central figure of \u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/sodeisha\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSodeisha\u003c\/a\u003e who led postwar avant-garde ceramics. In 1958 Matsubara visited Yagi in Kyoto carrying a business card entrusted by Kimura, and served for about three years as a live-in apprentice, assisting with the work. After returning to Mashiko, Matsubara built the Yatake Kiln at Uchimachi, Mashiko, in 1961, and moved the kiln to Kitanaka, Mashiko, in 1974. An essay by a curator of the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art credits Matsubara with completing, after the return home, a distinctive namishiro glaze as a personal means of expression rather than an imitation of \u003ca href=\"\/en\/search?q=%22%E6%BF%B1%E7%94%B0%E5%BA%84%E5%8F%B8%22\u0026amp;type=product\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eHamada Shoji\u003c\/a\u003e. Matsubara received the Arts Festival Award in the crafts division of the Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival in 1967 and an Encouragement Award at the International Ceramic Art Exhibition in 1990. The 2005 work \"Black Pottery: Crested Kingfisher\" (黒陶 山翡翠) is in the collection of the Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art and was also shown in the museum's 2023 exhibition \"30th Anniversary: 1958– The Dawn of Individual Ceramics in Mashiko.\" The lid of the accompanying artist-signed box (tomobako) bears the inscription \"Yunomi\" with the maker's signature and a red seal, and a leaflet in which the teacher, Kimura Ichiro, introduces the maker is included. Because the career summary in the leaflet runs up to the 1974 move of the kiln to Kitanaka, this piece is estimated to date from 1974 or later.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLooking closely at the design, the form is a cylinder with horizontal steps circling the body, narrowing at the waist before joining the foot ring. Over the whitish base glaze, arcing leaf-like motifs in brown brushwork are arranged around the body. Each is a single stroke, thick where the brush enters and tapering to a fine point as it lifts; where the pigment pools thickly it turns blackish brown, and at the thin edges a reddish brown. On some faces, stem-like vertical lines combine with the leaf motifs, and amber dots and fine runs are scattered between them. The waist has a finely roughened glaze surface, and the bare clay shows on the foot rim. Inside the foot ring, the glaze has crawled and gathered into island-like shapes, in a scene resembling kairagi (梅花皮). These are expressions of the glaze produced by firing, not chips or cracks. The interior is covered with white glaze and retains throwing marks. The techniques for which records show Matsubara was recognized are namishiro glaze and black pottery. This piece is not black pottery, and since the box inscription names no glaze, its base glaze cannot be identified with certainty as namishiro.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe offer this cylindrical piece, about 9.5 cm high with a mouth diameter of about 8.2 cm, as a \"Japanese-style rocks glass (vessel for aged spirits)\" for enjoying aged sake, matured spirits, whisky and the like over ice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e[An Introduction by the Teacher, Kimura Ichiro: \"On Matsubara Naoyuki\"]\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMatsubara Naoyuki is a mid-career artist among the potters of Mashiko, with nearly twenty years in ceramics. In 1967 Matsubara received the Arts Festival Award in the crafts division of the Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival. Until then, belonging to no association or group and showing at no exhibitions, Matsubara worked at an unhurried pace, at times indulging in poetic feeling, and the works carry something of a vast, boundless dignity. At first glance nothing in them is unusual or meant to astonish, yet the longer one looks, the more their honest \"reach\" and \"largeness\" speak of Matsubara as a person.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe artistic question now is how to bring this work to completion, and I am one of those watching with particular anticipation. Matsubara, a leading pupil of Yagi Kazuo, the master of the avant-garde in contemporary ceramics, studied for many years in Kyoto, and is, so to speak, the only potter in Mashiko trained in the world of modern craft. I cannot help but look forward to the day when the lines of the new and the old will merge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI believe that Matsubara is an artist who can accomplish this work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKimura Ichiro (木村一郎, 1915–1978)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/maker-matsubara-naoyuki\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMatsubara Naoyuki\u003c\/a\u003e (松原直之, 1938–2024)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist's Representative Career Highlights:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1956: began studying under Kimura Ichiro. From 1958: studied under Yagi Kazuo in Kyoto (about three years as a live-in apprentice). 1961: built the Yatake Kiln at Uchimachi, Mashiko. 1967: Tochigi Prefecture Arts Festival Award (Crafts Division). 1971: solo exhibition at Mitsukoshi Ikebukuro, Tokyo. 1974: solo exhibition at Seaman Gallery (シーマン画廊), Utsunomiya; moved the kiln to Kitanaka, Mashiko. 1990: International Ceramic Art Exhibition Encouragement Award.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublic Collections: \u003c\/strong\u003eMashiko Museum of Ceramic Art (\"Black Pottery: Crested Kingfisher,\" 2005)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProduction Period: \u003c\/strong\u003eMid-to-late 1970s (estimated: the career summary in the leaflet ends in 1974, which agrees with \"nearly twenty years in ceramics\" in its text, and the writer, Kimura Ichiro, died in 1978)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eItem Condition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Very good (no chips, no cracks). Please regard the crazing that forms in firing, other characteristics of ceramics and the patina of age as part of the pleasure of an antique piece.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAccessories: \u003c\/strong\u003eArtist-signed box (tomobako), leaflet\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial: \u003c\/strong\u003eCeramic \/ Pottery (\u003ca href=\"\/en\/collections\/mashiko-ware\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eMashiko ware\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: \u003c\/strong\u003eHeight approx. 9.5 cm, Mouth diameter approx. 8.2 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNote:\u003c\/strong\u003e The items provided by our shop were produced a very long time ago and are all listed as pre-owned items. Please understand and confirm the age-related changes before considering your purchase.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePlease check the photos:\u003c\/strong\u003e We prepare every description with great care, but errors may still remain in the text. Please examine the photos carefully before purchasing. Where the photos and the description differ, please take the photos as the basis for the product information.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Antique Liquor","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":68095969624251,"sku":null,"price":31000.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0652\/0510\/8923\/files\/IMG_6700_result_9283c8b9-f971-4ef1-93b1-bdcf2cda6ffb.jpg?v=1794213602"}],"url":"https:\/\/antiqueliquor1926.com\/en\/collections\/maker-matsubara-naoyuki.oembed","provider":"Antique Liquor","version":"1.0","type":"link"}