Son of a Kyoto restaurant owner, the young Mokubei studied Chinese classics, painting, calligraphy, and seal-engraving. Among his acquaintances were the most important literati painters of the age. His study of pottery was...
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Son of a Kyoto restaurant owner, the young Mokubei studied Chinese classics, painting, calligraphy, and seal-engraving. Among his acquaintances were the most important literati painters of the age. His study of pottery was inspired by reading the Chinese treatise on ceramics, T'ao-Shuo by Chu Yen [Chn] (1767), and eventually he wrote a Japanese translation of the work. An album also survives in which Mokubei sketched Chinese ceramics that he studied in private Kyoto collections. One sketch shows a celadon bowl of the sort made in Ming China and known to Japanese connoisseurs as "doll type" (ningyo-de) because of the figures and mottoes stamped in the interior. Mokubei's version of the bowl might have served as a cake dish for the Ming form of steeped tea known as sen-cha, popular in literary circles.
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