{"title":"Masaaki Iwasa 岩佐昌昭","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eMasaaki Iwasa leads two lives in Izumo, Shimane Prefecture: as head priest of Tokuen Temple, a Rinzai Zen monastery with over three hundred years of history, and as a ceramic artist whose work is inseparable from that practice. Born in Ehime Prefecture in 1979, he spent nearly a decade apprenticing under master potters in Japan before establishing his kiln in Izumo in 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHis signature technique, \u003cem\u003etoutai shitsuki\u003c\/em\u003e (ceramic lacquerware), applies lacquer as an adhesive for metal leaf onto fired ceramic vessels, which are then refired at several hundred degrees. Where the metal adheres and burns away, a landscape emerges on the surface, quiet, unpredictable, and unrepeatable. Each piece develops its own patina over time, shifting in tone and texture with age, a quality he traces to a life spent among ancient temple objects whose gold and silver leaf has grown more beautiful over centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/8773\/0416\/collections\/MASAAKI_IWASA_01.jpg?v=1780551497","url":"https:\/\/arj.la\/collections\/masaaki-iwasa-%e5%b2%a9%e4%bd%90%e6%98%8c%e6%98%ad.oembed","provider":"ARJ Los Angeles","version":"1.0","type":"link"}