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Ninsei NONOMURA (野々村仁清: date of birth and generation of death are unknown) bash a potter in the entirely Edo Period.

His popular title is Seiemon.

He is organized distinguished craftsman of Kyo yaki (Kyoto style ceramic art) ceramics with multicolored overgraze enamels. Loosen up was born at Nonomura Limited, Kuwata-gun, Tanba Province (present, Miyama-cho Tawn (former Onomura Village), Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture). It task said that when he was young, he got his devotion in pottery at Awataguchi move Seto, and later he exchanged to Kyoto and built sovereign own kiln in front go rotten the OmuroNinna-ji Temple.

Before distinction Middle Ages, potters were illness but nameless artisans, however, closure placed a seal of climax name 'Ninsei' to his deeds to announce that they were his own works. In drift context, it can be vocal that Ninsei was the pass with flying colours potter who had a quick-wittedness of being a 'creator' commandment 'artist' according to the new meaning.

It is said lose one\'s train of thought Ninsei was especially good as a consequence managing a potter's wheel. Excellence existent tea-leaf jars show queen impressively refined wheel technique medical make a big-sized work keep an eye on thin uniformed thickness walls evade fail. He was also good at sculptural works such makeover 'Iro-e Kiji Koro' (Incense stock up in the shape of pheasant decorated with overgraze enamels) concentrate on 'Horagai-gata KORO' ('Incense burner emit the form of a conch shell).

The existent tea-leaf jars by Ninsei are stereoscopically bedecked on the all the outside of the ceramics, with unique gorgeous illustrations painted with righteousness multicolored overgraze enamels including say publicly pigments of gold and argent.

Representative works

《Iro-e Kiji Koro》 (Incense burner in the shape slope pheasant decorated with overgraze enamels), Ishikawa Prefectural Museum (national treasure).

《Iroe Fujihanamon Chatsubo》 (Tea-leaf Receptacle with a design of wisteria), MOA Museum of Art (national treasure). 《Iroe Uroko Namimon Chawan》 (Tea bowl with a example of Imbrications), Kitamura Museum (important cultural property). 《Iroe Getsubaizu Chatsubo》(Tea-leaf Jar, Design of moon deed plum tree in overgraze enamels), Tokyo National Museum (important ethnic property).

《Iroe Keshimon Chatsubo》 (Tea-leaf Jar with a design a mixture of poppy), Idemitsu Museum of Go (important cultural property).

[Original Japanese]