Posted 2 years ago
kwqd
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These Kozangama hashioki are about 2" square and about .5" high. All are signed on the back with the kiln mark. The set came in a signed tomobako with at label on one end. Guessing this is not a fan, but do not know what it is meant to represent.
Kozangama technically falls under Minoyaki pottery:
" Minoyaki is made in the Gifu Prefecture and has been since the 1500's. The Mino group covers many different companies, kilns and potters. Mino pottery is usually marked with name or special marking of the company, kiln and/or indvidual artist."
Kozangama pottery is also a brand of the Maebata China Corporation:
"Kozangama is a house brand of the Maebata China Corporation. According to the book "Visiting the Mino Kilns" by Janet Barriskill pg. 75, the company began in 1945. The headquarters are,located In Maebata-cho in Tajimi. The factory is located in the Tajimi Mino Pottery Wholesale Center. As of the printing of the book (1995) she identifies three labels: Kozangama with traditional Japanese designs, Kinyu-an with old Japanese designs and Utsuwakan which is western-modern."
Bad news, though, CW is not going to create a "Hashioki" category, "Unfortunately, we do not have enough inventory on eBay currently to create this category on CW.". I do not understand what this means and asked for clarification and maybe the creation of a FAQ about requests for creation of new categories. I tried!
Beautiful
Thanks, Karen! It is incredibly detailed for such a small piece.
Thanks, fortapache, Karen and yougottahavestuff!
What a beautiful design!
Your chopstick rest depicts a feathered shuttlecock from a badminton-style Japanese New Year game called hanetsuki, played mostly by girls.
Both the paddle (hagoita) and the shuttlecock (hago or hane) are used as symbols of the New Year.
This bit is speculative: I think the shuttlecock may also simply be regarded as a symbol of youth, as it is after all a child's plaything. Your hashioki are decorated with flowers of various seasons (peony, iris, bellflower). On kimono, tea implements, etc., when you have an item decorated with symbols of multiple seasons, it can be used at any time of year.
P.S. I have a mamezara (small plate) decorated with one of these little shuttlecocks. They're adorable!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanetsuki
P.S. I wonder if you'd have more luck with eBay if you point them to the category "Chopstick Rests" (rather than hashioki). It yields 700 results:
https://www.ebay.com/b/Chopstick-Rest/165469/bn_55188147
Thanks for your comments, rhineisfine. The first thing I did after hearing back from CW was to ask them if the category "chopstick rest/s" would work instead? CW has not responded. I never mentioned ebay in either message to CW. I do not know why what is on ebay has anything to do with creating new categories.
Thanks for the information! I figured that you would know what these are!
These are my favorite of your hashioki sets, love the fan shape
Thanks for your comments, Jenni! These are a feast for the eyes!
Thanks for loving my hashioki Jenni, inky, rhineisfine, vcal, Cisum, fortapache, Karen and yougottahavestuff!
According to one of the Shinto customs and beliefs, hanetsuki was used as a ritual to promote healthy development in young girls.
When playing Oibane you make same movements as used in Shinto to evert evil spirits. This gesure of the arms is called harau” – driving away. addendum the word “soap nut” probably S?puber? nattsu (compound of ythe shuttles are made) in Japanese uses the same kanji as for the description of “kids without illness
so the connection - movement is integration of the shinto , later they used The hagoite omamori for girls during the New Year celebration. This is one reason why hanetsuki is mainly played by women and girls.
so you get a self-reinforcing effect because small children are more accessible to it
so whate used to be a rudimentary form of type of the oibane during Ashikaga Shogunate was for the happy few class . the upper layer of the social stratificaty, became became populair very much later
Thanks kivatinitz, Kevin, Vynil33rpm, dav2no1, jscott0363 and Falcon61!
These are really interesting with so much going on in the design and the different colors.Thanks for posting these with a description.
Thanks for the explanation, waki!
Thanks, for your comments and for loving this post, jbingham95!
Thanks, Daisy1000!