Kaneko Kohyo White Rinka Plate – Handmade Japanese Flower-Shaped Ceramic Tableware ceramic dish 1974 - Selected for the

1974 - Selected for the 7th Traditional Kutani Ware Crafts Exhibition for the first time

I was fascinated by the beauty of the glaze accumulation

or everyday use

Lower bulge spoon shape

characterized by hand-shaping

Kaneko Kohyo White Rinka Plate – Handmade Japanese Flower-Shaped Ceramic Tableware ceramic dish 1974 - Selected for theKaneko Kohyo has been firing ceramics in Toki, Gifu Prefecture since 1921 and the Rinka is the piece that carried them beyond Japan. The Rinka plate is a modern classic of Japanese ceramics. The name means "flower ring." Look at it straight on and you understand why: the rim rises and falls in soft scallops, like petals caught mid bloom. It's a shape that does something unusual for a plate it makes whatever you put on it look considered. A piece of