{"product_id":"vase-carre-orne-dune-illustration-representant-une-tortue-suppon","title":"Square vase decorated with an illustration of a “suppon” turtle","description":"\u003ch4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"\u003e✦ A sculptor, a flame, and a small blue joy\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSome objects enter a room and quietly change everything. This square vase is one of them. Crafted by Makimasa Imai — a ceramist from a three-generation lineage of artisans who spent a decade studying sculpture at the Tokyo University of the Arts — it carries a rare duality: the considered eye of an artist trained to think in form, and the lightness of a spirit who knows how to smile.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"\u003e✦ The white clay and the blue turtle\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eIn the hills surrounding Takehara, in Hiroshima Prefecture, the ancient \u003cem\u003enoborigama\u003c\/em\u003e climbing kilns are stoked with wood for days at a time. In that long, patient heat, clay becomes something else — something luminous. It was in one of these kilns that this vase was born: fired slowly by living flame, its surface emerging with a warm, milky whiteness that feels almost like skin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOnto that ivory ground, Imai drew — freehand, unhurried — a \u003cem\u003esuppon\u003c\/em\u003e turtle. This soft-shelled creature has been revered in Japan for centuries as a symbol of longevity and good fortune. Yet what Imai gives us is no solemn emblem. It is a small, slightly wry being, sketched in blue with a brushstroke that carries just the right amount of hesitation. It moves. It breathes. It makes you want to smile back.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"\u003e✦ Living with this piece\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSlip in the stem of a flower gathered on a morning walk — a pale anemone, a sprig of wild grass, a cosmos — and watch the room shift around it. Or simply let the vase stand alone on a windowsill, a shelf, a corner of a table: its little blue turtle keeping quiet, unhurried watch. Either way, it brings to your daily life that quality the Japanese call \u003cem\u003eyō no bi\u003c\/em\u003e — beauty through use, beauty that truly inhabits the everyday.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOne piece. One artist. One flame that made it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003chr class=\"border-border-200 border-t-0.5 my-3 mx-1.5\"\u003e\n\u003ch4 class=\"text-text-100 mt-2 -mb-1 text-base font-bold\"\u003e✦ Specifications\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"overflow-x-auto w-full px-2 mb-6\"\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"min-w-full border-collapse text-sm leading-[1.7] whitespace-normal\"\u003e\n\u003cthead class=\"text-left\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\" class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/60 py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003cth scope=\"col\" class=\"text-text-100 border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/60 py-2 pr-4 align-top font-bold\"\u003e\u003c\/th\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/thead\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003eW 7.5 cm × D 7.5 cm × H 21 cm\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e0.45 kg\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003eCeramic — wood-fired in a \u003cem\u003enoborigama\u003c\/em\u003e climbing kiln\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArtist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003eMakimasa Imai\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEdition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003eOne-of-a-kind (\u003cem\u003eichiten-mono\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShips from\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"border-b-0.5 border-border-300\/30 py-2 pr-4 align-top\"\u003eKyoto, Japan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eOne-of-a-kind piece. 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