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"Harmony (wa) is sculpted in various forms in deep characters on this large Toban pottery slab by founding Sodeisha member Kumakura Junkichi enclosed in the original signed wooden box made as a gift to the governor of the 1970 Osaka World Exposition.  It is 16 x 20 x 2 inches (50 x 40 x 5.5 cm) and is in fine condition.  \r\nJunkichi (1920-1985) began working in ceramics in the 1940s, his works submitted to innumerable National and International Exhibitions including the Japan Art Festival, New York and the international Arts and Crafts Exhibition in Florence Italy. He also submitted to the Brussels World Exposition and helped design murals for the World Exposition Osaka. At the International Ceramics Exhibition, Prague in 1962 he took a silver prize. He was also often exhibited and is in the permanent collection of the Japanese National Museum of Modern Art as well as the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto. Along with Suzuki Osamu, Hikaru Yamada and Yagi Kazuo, Junkichi was one of the founding members of the influential Sodeisha (Crawling Through Mud Association), a group of revolutionary post war ceramic artists whose influence remains strong today.\r\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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