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"I Love Utensils" Author: [Japan] Xiangjian Zhisheng Publisher: Utopia | Guangxi Normal University Press Producer: Utopia
"I Love Utensils" Author: [Japan] Xiangjian Zhisheng Publisher: Utopia | Guangxi Normal University Press Producer: Utopia
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
▲How a Kamakura art gallery owner met his favorite craft artist
▲How each craftsman’s studio and language shape their creations
▲ Comprehensive collection of methods for using, washing and storing utensils
This book is an essay about artifacts by the gallery owner Xiang Jianzhisheng. It introduces the representative works of 24 groups of artifact craftsmen, and uses plain and clear language to express the shining points of them. Each author has a different working environment, personality and style, and their works also exude different charms and are used in different occasions. The author visits the workshops of his favorite creators and finds the source of the personality contained in their works from the details of their creations.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Author: Xiangjian Zhisheng
Art gallery owner, based in Kamakura, organizes various themed tableware exhibitions to present the beauty of tableware. Author of books such as "Good Tableware in Good Weather", "DVD BOOK: Ceramist Ono Teppei", "Gentle Vegetables, Gentle Tableware", "Daily Tableware", "Tableware, This Nameless Thing", "Tableware Form", etc., and plans and edits books such as "LIVE Tableware and Cuisine" and "Tepei Ono". Hosts many exhibitions, mainly "TABERU" and "Romance of Tableware" at the SFT Gallery of the National Art Center, Tokyo. Former project director of "The Wonder 500" of the Japan Bureau of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Translator: Kuang Kuang
Writer and translator, completed doctoral course in Western art history at Kyoto University. Works: novel collection "Seven Days", column collection "Many Good Battles Still Need to Be Fought Again", etc. Translations: Lafcadio Hearn's "Kaidan·Kitan", Otsuichi's "Embryo Tales", Takahata Isao's "The World Opened by a Painting", Tendo Arata's "Jito's Diary", Saigo Yuhi's "The Night Sky Always Has the Most Densified Blue", etc. Nearly 20 works.
Table of contents · · · · · ·
The first step is to start with pink. The elegance of blue and white porcelain. The delightful Nanman ware. The pure Mishima handicraft melts into white porcelain. I have a promise with the utensils. The joy of washing the utensils. Get a flower vase to decorate the kitchen. A few colorful plates. Utensils storage. Working utensils, delicious utensils. The "cuteness" of utensils.
A tribute to the shape of an ordinary day. A postscript to the little things about naming