Matsubayashi Hosai XVI
Sixteen Generations

Sixteen Generations centres on tea bowls inspired by the sixteen generations of the Asahiyaki kiln which was founded in 1600, next to the Uji river in Kyoto prefecture. These stunning new works and other ceramic pieces have been selected by Matsubayashi from wood firings over the last two years.

Matsubayashi Hosai XVI (1980-) apprenticed with his father and also followed in his ancestor’s footsteps when in 2015 he went to work as the artist in residence at the Leach Pottery, just like Matsubayashi Tsuronosuke (1894-1932), who was invited by Bernard Leach and Hamada Shoji to rebuild the St Ives kiln in the 1920s. Sixteen Generations celebrates the centenary of Tsuronosuke’s trip to England. Matsubayashi Hosai XVI has shown in private galleries in Paris, New York, Taipei, Singapore and Shanghai as well as museums such as the Guimet Museum of Oriental Art in Paris, Kyoto Museum of Crafts and Design and the National Museum of Wales which has acquired his work. Based on the aesthetic ideal of “Kirei Sabi” (Beauty and Simplicity), Matsubayashi has reinterpreted his predecessors’ techniques and developed his own distinctive Geppaku blue glaze which he uses in a bold new way.

Come and meet Matsubayashi at Postcard Teas on Thursday, September 19th between 5-8pm and on Saturday 21st between 2-5pm.