A kiln in the name of Kawai Kanjiro. The kiln is named Kanei which comes from the name of its town (Kanei Town of Higashiyama Ward in Kyoto City), and was inherited from the fifth generation Kiyomizu Rokubei in 1920.
At the time he was producing early Chinese and Joseon dynasty-style work, he made them using Kanei kiln as the signature for the boxes and ceramic seals, or Kanei kiln for just the boxes only. However in 1926, he came to take part in Mingei Undo(Folk Crafts), and from then on he gradually had a style of putting ‘Kan’ on the boxes and not having a ceramic seal.
