Vintage Year of the Snake Shikishi cherry blossom chawan Suitable as a fruit bowl

Suitable as a fruit bowl or as a centrepiece on a dining table

After his apprenticeship he joined the Bizen Togei Centre

Numata was an award winning sculptor in both Japan and overseas and Ishida studied moulding techniques from him

7cm (3”) x 8

Vintage Year of the Snake Shikishi cherry blossom chawan Suitable as a fruit bowl*SHIPPING OPTIONS VARY DEPENDING ON THE DESTINATION, PLEASE SCROLL TO THE END OF THIS LISTING FOR MORE DETAILS. This listing is for a signed sumi e ink and wash shikishi. The painting depicts a snake and was most likely made to commemorate the Year of the Snake around 30 40 years ago. Fifteen hundred years ago, during the Jin Dynasty, there was a Chinese scholar who wrote a book called The Records of the Gods of War. It tells the story of a white