Doro Butsudo Bi Roku Zuihitsu (Kodansha Bungei Bunko)

[Machine Translation] Kawakita Hanroko is a first-rate style artist who is known as "Rosanjin of the East and Hanroko of the West. Born into a wealthy merchant family in Ise, he held important positions such as bank president and local assemblyman, while at the same time demonstrating his versatility in calligraphy, painting, tea ceremony, photography, and haiku. He was also a prolific calligrapher, tea ceremony master, photographer, and haiku poet. He showed exceptional talent in the field of ceramics, creating a free-spirited world of elegant forms that earned him the reputation as the "Koetsu of the Showa Era. This is a valuable collection of playful essays by Hanroko, a potter of many styles, focusing on his theory of ceramics.

「東の魯山人、西の半泥子」と並び称された一流の風流人-川喜田半泥子。伊勢の豪商の家に生まれ、銀行頭取、地方議員などの要職をこなしつつ、書画、茶の湯、写真、俳句と、その多芸ぶりを発揮。とりわけ陶芸では破格の才を示し、自由奔放ななかにも雅趣に富む造形世界を創造、「昭和の光悦」と声価を高める。数寄の作陶家・半泥子の陶芸論を中心とした、遊び心溢れる、貴重な随筆集。