Japanese Art Glass

This ultimate guide will introduce the most inspiring aspects of japanese art.

Japanese art glass. From the oldest surviving silkscreen painting through magnificent 18th century woodblock prints to japan s most famous modern artist yayoi kusama. As windows replaced paper shoji screens in the 19th century glass made its glittering entrance onto the japanese art scene. Japanese glass gallery and shop selling contemporary glass objects from different regions and artists in japan. Japanese glass produced since world war ii is a far cry from the traditional glass floats used by fisherman or even the precision kiriko cut glass produced prior to world war i postwar japanese forms borrow from the geometric shapes of scandinavian glass designers tapio wirkkala and timo sarpaneva as well as the textured pieces of riihimaki riihimaen.

Japanese glass art has a short history. Japanese glass artistic achievements remain largely unknown to the western audience. Not just new glass but vintage pieces from around 1950 s 1970 s the quality and style of which rivals murano scandinavian and czech glass production. There is currently not all that much known about the japanese glass industry but more and more quality pieces of glassware are appearing bearing japan labels.

We have carefully curated unique glass objects from remote japanese workshops and have sourced them directly from the artists. The first independent glass studios were built by saburo funakoshi and makoto ito and shinzo kotani in separate places. Japanese glass shown below is our current range of vases bowls and other decorative vintage collectable glassware from the country of japan. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something.

Japanese glass identification guide gallery. Yoshihiko takahashi and hiroshi yamano show their works at galleries throughout the world and are arguably japan s glass artists of note. These japanese artists however have found some truly enlightening ways to harness its expressive power. Back to glass encyclopedia home.

Thin light elegant more than 100 years. Learn more there is currently not all that much known about the japanese glass industry but more and more quality pieces of glassware are appearing bearing japan labels. We re so familiar with glass in everyday items that we may not realize the limitless potential it offers for art. Here we tell their story and introduce you to japanese glass craftsmanship.

We have travelled around japan and met talented glass artists. Kintsugi 金継ぎ golden joinery also known as kintsukuroi 金繕い golden repair is the japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold silver or platinum a method similar to the maki e technique. The unique objects include gifts functional glassware and glass art pieces.