A TALL JAPANESE VASE BY GENROKU TOMINAGA (1859 - 1920)

MEIJI OR TAISHO PERIOD, 20TH CENTURY

The elegant slender body decorated in underglaze blue and gilt with blossoming branches of prunus and pine before bamboo, the base signed Genroku sei, 40cm.

Genroku worked in Ureshino on the Island of Kyushu during the late 19th/early 20th century. He became Head of the Protection of Cultural Properties Commission and won many prizes, including awards at the Fifth National Industrial Exposition in 1903.