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Bonsai Pot Collection Sales Catalog

02 Friday Dec 2016

Posted by Sam Edge in Bonsai Pots, Chinese Pot, Daisuke Sano, Kouzan, Tofukuji, Yusen

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page-1Click the link below for the catalog.

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For the last 20 years, KJ and I have been collecting excellent bonsai pots from Japan and China.  However, the last 7 years we have been concentrating on building our viewing stone collection.  We therefore we have made the decision to sell the majority of our Japanese and Chinese collector bonsai pots.

Our collection contains Yusen, Tofukuji, Isseki, and Kouzan pots from Japan, several very old Chinese antique pots and others.  Most are show/collector quality pots, with a few exceptions.

If you have interest in any of these pots and would like more information or photos, please contact us at the email address listed on the catalog and we will get back with you as quickly as we can.

Thank you for your consideration.

Our best,

Sam and KJ

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Pots by Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

14 Monday Nov 2011

Posted by Sam Edge in Bonsai Pots, Daisuke Sano, Japan

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Our first introduction to Daisuke’s pots was through Daisaku Nomoto (野元大作). A small 7cm pot that is exquisitely made with a beautiful pattern.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Some of his pots remind us of Tsukinowa Yusen (月之輪湧泉) in both form and paintings.  Daisuke’s paintings are not as refined as Yusen to us but they are still quite beautiful. Let’s take a look at a few of his pots.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

This pot has a very heavy feeling and especially so with the strong green and black stripe lines.  The painting is quite detailed and lovely in form.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

This is one of his artist marks.  It is always interesting to us how many marks the potters use. It would be quite informative to understand how they make the decision to use each one.  For our pot above, here is the artist mark:

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Without knowing this was his mark one can tell little obvious similarity between the two.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

We really like this pot.  It has a much lighter feeling and the painting is of the same quality as the pot above it.  Notice the addition of the red accents on the feet. To us this fits with the overall design of the pot.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

We see a third artist mark that uses the mark from the first part.  Perhaps if someone can translate what these marks are saying we can share it with the other readers.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

This is a smaller pot with similar cloud feet to the pot above. The interesting thing about this pot to us is the various use of color on it’s sides.  This scene we have seen depicted on other pots (Yusen) and especially with the feature of the birds flying in “v” formation.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Notice how we have changed seasons and now we see a winter scene.  Perhaps the scene above is fall with the ducks/geese beginning migration.  A number of visual queues in these paintings.

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

Daisuke Sano (大輔佐野)

We will take this scene as summer with the trees fully leafed and someone enjoying an afternoon cruise!

Well if this is your first time to see Daisuke’s pots we hoped you enjoyed them and if you know this potter well hopefully you will have not seen these particular ones before.

Some new Yusen pots tomorrow, or the day after.

Small Stands, Pots, Dobans – Part 2

26 Sunday Dec 2010

Posted by Sam Edge in Bonsai Pots, Bunzan, Daisuke Sano, Green Club, Japan, Kunii Masako, Sugiura Keisen

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KJ and I hope that each of you had a Merry Christmas!  We want to personally thank all of the readers from Czech Republic for visiting our site last year and hope we will provide articles of interest for you in 2011.  To all of our readers, we want to say thank you and our best wishes for 2011.

Last week we finally added new display cases to the house which has given us an opportunity to dig out a few pots we haven’t seen in a while and post them in this second article on small pots.  In today’s post, we will show you pots by Tofukuji, Sugiura Keisen, Daisuke Sano, Bunzan and others where hopefully you might know the potter.

Tofukuji glazed pot (6cm)

Tofukuji glazed pot (6cm)

Tofukuji made numerous very small pots some as small as 2.5cm or 1 inch.  Tofukuji is known for his glazes and unfortunately today also he is known for the number of forgeries of his pots.  In 2008 there were so many forgeries of his pots that it caused a devaluation of them in Japan.  Our suggestion is that if you are going to purchase one that you do two things: 1) Purchase his book and study it so you can recognize his glazes and clay; and, 2) Buy from reputable dealers.

Tofukuji (6cm)

Tofukuji (6cm)

Tofukuji hanko (6cm)

Tofukuji (6cm) - inkan (印鑑) or hanko (判子)

Unknown potter (6cm)

Unknown potter (6cm)

We are not sure who the artist is but we would consider this glaze to almost be classified as the color of sea foam.  We would have loved to have seen what was planted in this pot.  It was likely an accent plant but who knows.

Unknown Potter (5cm)

Marufuji Seiji (丸藤) (7 cm)

We picked up this pot at the Green Club in 2008.  Frankly it wasn’t an expensive pot but we loved the color and texture of it.  \

Thanks to Josef we now know who made this pot: Marufuji Seiji (丸藤).  Thanks Josef!

Do you know this potter?

Marufuji Seiji (丸藤)

Unglazed Tokufuji

Unglazed Tokufuji

This pot has been in a previous post so we won’t say much other than this pot has never been used.  An excellent shape and color.

Daisuke Sano (6cm)

Daisuke Sano (7 cm)

We really appreciate Daisuke’s pots. Most are glazed and hand drawn with beautiful patterns and colors.

Daisuke's signature

Daisuke's signature

This is a more uncommon signature for Daisuke but I confirmed this is his pot in one of our Japanese bonsai pot books. As can be seen from the bottom of this pot, it has been used extensively.

Sugiura Keisen (7cm)

Sugiura Keisen (7.5 cm)

We have several of Sugiura Keisen’s pots and enjoy his glazes.  Several of his pots are in books we own and are in this same red glaze.

Sugiura Keisen

Sugiura Keisen

Kunii Masako

Kunii Masako (4cm)

Kunii Masako’s pot are available for sale at this site: click here.  She makes principally very small pots and almost all of them glazed.  If you are in need of good accent pots these are an excellent choice and her prices are quite good.  You can purchase her pots through Yoshi.

Antique Chinese (12cm)

Antique Chinese (12cm)

We have several antique Chinese pots in our collection.  Most of them stay in the house until it is show time.

Bunzan (文山)

Bunzan (文山)

This is a Bunzan pot ~3cm on a Chinese stand.   Frankly these aren’t all that practical to use as accent pots but we love his glazes.

Bunzan (4 cm)

Bunzan (4 cm)

Bunzan (1.5cm)

Bunzan (1.5cm)

One of our smallest pots, we do have a Bunzan that is .5cm, and again using a nice glaze.

Bunzan

Bunzan

These are unusual as they are unglazed and very small. Both are under 2.5cm.

Bunzan

Bunzan

It might be interesting to see if we could plant a small orchid in this pot.  We will let you know if it works or not.

Small glazed pots (1-2.5cm)

Small glazed pots (1-2.5cm)

We purchased the three of these about four years ago from Youkei Bonsai.  I have no idea who the potter is but we liked the scenes painted on these pots.

Antique pot?  (6cm)

Tetsuzan (6cm)

This was sold to us as an antique Chinese pot but frankly I’m not sure how old it is and if it is Japanese or Chinese.  Can anyone help by viewing the chop mark bel0w?  

Who is the potter?

Tetsuzan

We used this as an accent pot but then decided it would be much better to be in the house.  No need to take unnecessary risks.

Well this is a few of our small pots.  Unpractical to use in most cases but certainly beautiful to look at and to hold.  Our next post will be on small dobans and suibans.  Till next time – Cheers!

inkan (印鑑) or hanko (判子)

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