TAMURA SEITO Kutani ware Sake Cup - Jumping Rabbit / 九谷焼 盃 dad Pour in a hot drink

Pour in a hot drink above 55°C

is a delicately framed porcelain artwork by celebrated Kutani ware artist 中村陶志人 / Nakamura Toshito

a potter in Seto City

"雷神" - Raijin

TAMURA SEITO Kutani ware Sake Cup - Jumping Rabbit / 九谷焼 盃 dad Pour in a hot drinkA footed sake cup by Seito Tamura(), one of only two people in Japan still practising Kutani brush written micro calligraphy, known as mhitsu saiji(). [Lift it and the whole piece rewards a closer look: a white rabbit caught mid leap across the well of the cup, a single pink blossom above it, and fine strokes of colour scattered like the first signs of the season.] here delete? Tucked into the upper curve is a waka poem, written in manygana ()an