matching hare bowls for the bf @rancidslime and yours truly!
id: A grey stoneware bowl with the inside illustration featuring a seafoam colored wide-eyed hare encompassing a litter of newborns curled around her stomach on a white background, with plants framing them. The outside of the bowl is glazed with a patina green, fading off to rust with drips of the glaze running off towards the foot.
Joyful ceramic figurines by artist Sawako Kobayashi, I love how colorful and detailed the painting is! You can see here:
rabbit wearing the kakuregasa (mythical hat of invisibility) to disappear in case of danger
Tanuki wearing the kakuremino (mythical cloak of invisibility) in order to do mischief
white wolf with the uchidenokodzuchi (mythical lucky mallet). Artist says wolves maybe used the mallet to be turned into dogs so they didn’t entirely went extinct T_T
sparrows doing ladder-top acrobatics (hashigonori), a tradition which first appeared among Edo-era firefighters
puppy in a lion dance costume
dragon god tea bowl (with the dragon pearl on the inside)
A frog holding stylised cloves (famously used as medicine since ancient times - that frog might then be in fact a toad, as those are animal linked to cures, immortality and magic)
[image descriptions: a simple brown and cream stoneware rabbit with stylized features. The rabbit has warm brown underglaze on its whole body except its head, chest, inner ears, and tail, which are creamy clay. The rabbit's eyes and heart-shaped nose are also brown. Each haunch has a big spiral on it; each ear has a line of three dots.]