Hakeme Rice Bowl by Atsushi Ogata with Kintsugi by Gen Saratani
This one-of-a-kind Hakeme rice bowl began in the hands of renowned ceramicist Atsushi Ogata, known for his elegant forms and mastery of traditional Hakeme brush slip technique. Notice how the soft, swirling gestures of white slipping across the clay body invite touch; Ogata's work is a tactile and experiential art.
Following a natural crack during either firing or use, the bowl was then entrusted to Gen Saratani, a renowned Kintsugi artist and lacquer master based in New York City. Saratani's work brings new life to the vessel through urushi lacquer and real gold, following the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi—repair not to conceal imperfection, but to underscore and exploit it.
Saratani's gold repair brings out the quiet power of Ogata's original form, emphasizing both the delicacy and resilience of this piece. This bowl is as much an object of beauty as it is a meditation on transformation, the result of a rare collaboration between two masters of their craft.
75mm W x 25mm H (2.75” W x 1” H)
UN05
This one-of-a-kind Hakeme rice bowl began in the hands of renowned ceramicist Atsushi Ogata, known for his elegant forms and mastery of traditional Hakeme brush slip technique. Notice how the soft, swirling gestures of white slipping across the clay body invite touch; Ogata's work is a tactile and experiential art.
Following a natural crack during either firing or use, the bowl was then entrusted to Gen Saratani, a renowned Kintsugi artist and lacquer master based in New York City. Saratani's work brings new life to the vessel through urushi lacquer and real gold, following the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi—repair not to conceal imperfection, but to underscore and exploit it.
Saratani's gold repair brings out the quiet power of Ogata's original form, emphasizing both the delicacy and resilience of this piece. This bowl is as much an object of beauty as it is a meditation on transformation, the result of a rare collaboration between two masters of their craft.
75mm W x 25mm H (2.75” W x 1” H)
UN05
This one-of-a-kind Hakeme rice bowl began in the hands of renowned ceramicist Atsushi Ogata, known for his elegant forms and mastery of traditional Hakeme brush slip technique. Notice how the soft, swirling gestures of white slipping across the clay body invite touch; Ogata's work is a tactile and experiential art.
Following a natural crack during either firing or use, the bowl was then entrusted to Gen Saratani, a renowned Kintsugi artist and lacquer master based in New York City. Saratani's work brings new life to the vessel through urushi lacquer and real gold, following the ancient Japanese art of Kintsugi—repair not to conceal imperfection, but to underscore and exploit it.
Saratani's gold repair brings out the quiet power of Ogata's original form, emphasizing both the delicacy and resilience of this piece. This bowl is as much an object of beauty as it is a meditation on transformation, the result of a rare collaboration between two masters of their craft.
75mm W x 25mm H (2.75” W x 1” H)
UN05
Gen Saratani is a New York-based artist who works exclusively with the organic materials found in the traditional fine arts of Japan.
Following high school and college studies in the arts in Japan, where he grew up, he served a three-year apprenticeship with his father, Tomizo, a lacquer artist, and a two-year apprenticeship in the study of maki-e under Akira Takeda in Kyoto. He currently lives and works in New York as a only Urushi master in the country.
In addition to his own work as an artist, he has conserved thousands of works of art and lectured, led workshops, or given demonstrations on working with lacquer, conservation and Kintsugi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Art and Design, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Parsons School of Design, and numerous other organizations.
Known as a pioneer in the popularity of kintsugi in recent years, he has created numerous artistic kintsugi works and also trained and produced many kintsugi artists in New York, the United States, and abroad.
