Ceramic of Katou Tohkuro
posted by Isabel Larrodé at 2:33 AM
Saturday, October 09, 2010
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Katou Tohkuro ( 1897~1985 )
Tohkuro is probably the greatest potting scandal of twentieth century Japan known as the Einin no Tsubo Scandal. Tohkuro prided himself on his ability to reproduce classical pieces so well that not even the experts could tell them apart. To prove his point, in 1937 he made several replicas of Einin period (1293-1299) Heishi, an old Seto sake bottle. It's not clear exactly when, but he broke a few of the pots and buried the shards along with an intact heishi in a medieval kiln site and had them "discovered" during an excavation of the kiln in 1960. (Many say that it was actually Katou's son Okabe Mineo who made the reproductions)
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