Japanese Art Glass

We have carefully curated unique glass objects from remote japanese workshops and have sourced them directly from the artists.

Japanese art glass. This ultimate guide will introduce the most inspiring aspects of japanese art. Japanese glass art has a short history. From the oldest surviving silkscreen painting through magnificent 18th century woodblock prints to japan s most famous modern artist yayoi kusama. Kodawari and wabi sabi drive japanese aesthetic which appreciates asymmetry imperfection and attention to detail.

Japanese glass gallery and shop selling contemporary glass objects from different regions and artists in japan. Japanese glass identification guide gallery. Thin light elegant more than 100 years. Japanese glass artistic achievements remain largely unknown to the western audience.

Kimura glass is an original unique design with more than a century of japanese glass making skill. Here we tell their story and introduce you to japanese glass craftsmanship. Japanese glass shown below is our current range of vases bowls and other decorative vintage collectable glassware from the country of japan. As windows replaced paper shoji screens in the 19th century glass made its glittering entrance onto the japanese art scene.

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 have travelled around japan and met talented glass artists. 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. These japanese artists however have found some truly enlightening ways to harness its expressive power.

The first independent glass studios were built by saburo funakoshi and makoto ito and shinzo kotani in separate places. Back to glass encyclopedia home. Japanese art is one of the world s greatest treasures but it is also surprisingly hard to find up to date information on the internet. Yoshihiko takahashi and hiroshi yamano show their works at galleries throughout the world and are arguably japan s glass artists of note.

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. As a philosophy it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object rather than something. 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.