Word: kenzan
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...connoiseurs in this country are competent to declare on the authenticity of certain potteries which bear the signature of the great Kenzan, who dashed a playful brush over so many tea bowls and cake dishes and who lacquered and painted and carved in wood. It has proved distressingly easy for the generations since his time to immitate his eccentricities but none seems quite to have caught his laugh. It is too much like translating Heine. This exhibition contains no less than seven examples in pottery and one painting ascribed to Kenzan; all are remarkably like the master's work, some...