According to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "He created a new style of painterly ceramics that replaced in popularity the heavily textured decorative overglaze enamels of the Kyoto pottery master Nonomura Ninsei (c.1574-1660/66). Kenzan was the first highly educated and cultivated merchant-artisan to operate a ceramics workshop and the first to use pottery as a medium for painting."
OMG, thank you! SO much! When I was in college, there was a question on my art history final asking us to name the brother of the man that made this piece. I have been trying to find out ever since (for the last 15 years). This is the piece, now I know. I can die with a satisfied mind.
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