Raku/Fun

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Artist Hakuō Iriyama (Japanese, 1904–1991)

Title Raku/Fun

Date 1979

Medium Dry lacquer with pigment

Dimensions Overall: 12 × 18 × 1 in. (30.5 × 45.7 × 2.5 cm)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds from Paula W. Sunderman and purchased with funds from the Thomas T. Solley Endowed Fund for Asian Art and the Estate of Herman B Wells via the Joseph Granville and Anna Bernice Wells Memorial Fund, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2016.77

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About this Work

Iriyama comes from a family of lacquer artists, but rather than follow traditional motifs and techiniques, he refines, reworks and reimagines the art form using a brush as well as carving to execute designs into the lacquer matrix.The character on this tea house plaque is "raku" meaning fun.

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"Raku/Fun | Collections Online." Collections Online. Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University, 2024. https://artmuseum.indiana.edu/collections-online/browse/object.php?number=2016.77