Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Japan

Jusetsu Miwa - Rice Dish

The National Museum of modern Art is located in a building designed by Taniguchi Yoshiro in the Kyobashi area of Tokyo. It was great to see the history of modern Japanese Art from the early 20th Century to the present. I had never even heard of most of the artists before, and particlarly liked the work of Kitaoka Fumio who created huge black and white prints depicting water, aswell as Miyakawa Yoshiki and Sawada Testuro. The crafts gallery was showing a ceramics exibition, Jusetsu Miwa: A Retrospective. The sculptor has been named a 'national living treasure' and is a sculptor of Hagi-ware. This exhibition displayed over 180 works including rice bowls, vases and water jars, presenting the culmination of 80 years of work. The pieces were beautiful but to be honest once you've seen once piece you've seen them all!