Earthenware Pots and Haniwa - C (Clay Sculptures) by Toru Mabuchi

Earthenware Pots and Haniwa - C (Clay Sculptures) by Toru Mabuchi

Earthenware Pots and Haniwa - C (Clay Sculptures)

Toru Mabuchi

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Title

Earthenware Pots and Haniwa - C (Clay Sculptures)

 
Artist

Toru Mabuchi

  1920 - 1994 (biography)
Year
c. 1965  
Technique
color woodblock 
Image Size
16 x 22" image 
Signature
pencil, upper right image; chop, upper right 
Edition Size
16 of 30  
Annotations
pencil titled in Japanese, editioned 
Reference
 
Paper
Japanese 
State
published 
Publisher
artist 
Inventory ID
16250 
Price
$1,000.00 
Description

Haniwa, which translates in Japanese to “circle of clay,” are unglazed funerary figurines from the Kofun period (3rd to 6th century AD), depicting people and animals with the contemporary clothing and decorations of the time. Their intricate details were well preserved, which led to their use as an archival record of the fashion, jobs, and spiritual and military ranking of an otherwise sparsely recorded era. They would be arranged in a circle above a tomb, held in place by mounds of earth.

Here, Mabuchi has depicted one such clay figure posed among pots. The stylized, Modernist shapes and colors chosen by the artist are indicative of his view on the figures, as less a symbol of grief than of celebration. This print is illustrated in Contemporary Japanese Prints, by Kawakita, plate 148, page 175.

 
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