Winter Grove (Fuyu no kodachi) Flower Container
Okuyama Hōseki 奥山峰石 Japanese
Not on view
The silver flower container bears a depiction of a forest by night, the outlines of the dark trees shown as if lit by the moon. The poetic design looks like an ink painting, but its refined, delicate lines were cut from thin metal sheets and soldered onto the surface, then hammered so that they lie flush with the ground. The artist became a Living National Treasure in 1995, in recognition of his skills in hammering (tankin).
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