Rosanjin

Rosanjin was a cook and restaurateur before he was a potter, and he made dishes to frame food. At his Hoshigaoka Saryo club in Tokyo in the 1920s he served on ceramics he designed after old Oribe, Shino and Kutani wares: square plates with green glaze poured across one corner, leaf-shaped dishes, bowls deliberately off-round. Skilled craftsmen in his kilns at Kita-Kamakura threw much of the work, which he then decorated and finished. Look at how each piece leaves space for what will sit on it.