Hello, I am Yuki, an owner of the Japanese bonsai pots online store YUKIMONO.
I went on a business trip to Tokoname, the
old pottery town, at the end of January 2016.
I go there 4~5 times a year to stock up on new
pots from potters.
Whenever I go to Tokoname, I have an interesting experience.
This time I had a chance to visit the bonsai potter “Bon-sai” and it was
wonderful.
Mr.Bon-sai Matsusita(松下凡才), the fourth generation
in a family of potters and whose father was also a bonsai potter, is unique and
very interesting.
He was an artist creating avant-garde art
work in his youth, who turned back to the bonsai world and has been making
bonsai pots ever since. I wrote “he was an artist,” but he is still an artist in
expressing beauty with bonsai pots in his own style.
It was thought that the shape of a bonsai
pot should be like a classical or traditional Chinese style in the Japanese
bonsai world, however, he broke up this way of thinking and shows his own style
of bonsai pots, what he believes to be most beautiful.
It must have been much tougher for him to
carry out such creative activity.
Think about that he was in Tokoname where many craftsmen
worked and respected a tradition, in addition, his father was one of the most famous
bonsai potters who made traditional style bonsai pots. Actually he has been under pressure
from the community and has had to overcome many difficulties.
His style has become more receptive, and nowadays
his pots are popular amongst Japanese bonsai enthusiasts.
His words,
“A
bonsai potter must be an artist and should keep creating what you really want,”
were very impressive to me.
By the way his name Bon-sai(凡才) means “ordinary ability,” and it is different from the word bonsai
(盆栽) that we all know.
These are his work.
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| This pot is made by the son of Bon-sai, BJR(Bon-sai, Jr.) |
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| This is also BJR's work. |
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