Eiraku Conservation

Japanese: 永楽保全 - えいらく・ほぜん

Year of death: September 18, 1854 (November 8, 1854)
Year of birth: 1795
A master craftsman of Kyoto ware in the late Edo period. The 11th generation of Nishimura Zengoro. Born into the Oriya Sawai family in Kyoto, he was adopted by the 10th generation Nishimura Zengoro Ryozen at around the age of 13 with the help of the Daitokuji temple priest Daiko. In July 1827, he was given the name "Hozen", taken from the Zhuangzi by Fujiwara Koei. In October of the same year, accompanied by the 10th generation Omotesenke Soza (Kyuusai), he participated in the Kairakuen ware pottery and garden ware pottery at the Nishihama Palace, the villa of Tokugawa Harutaka of the Kishu domain, together with his father Ryozen, and was awarded the gold seal of "Kawahama branch" and the silver seal of "Eiraku". In 1843, he handed the name of Zengoro to his eldest son Wazen, and changed his name to Zenichiro. In 1849, he was given the character "Tojun" by the Takatsukasa family, and was also called Tojunken. In 1847, when he adopted Sozaburo, the second son of lacquer artist Sano Nagahiro, discord arose between him and Wazen, and research into the development of pottery techniques also put a strain on the finances of the Zengoro family, so in 1850, he went to Edo to seek refuge with the Mitsui family, but on his way back to Kyoto the following year, he stayed in Otsu in Omi and founded Konan ware. In 1852, he was invited to make Takatsuki ware in the garden of Takatsuki Domain lord Nagai Naoteru, but returned to Konan ware in the same year, and in 1853, he established the official kiln for the Enman-in Monzeki Palace, and used seals such as "Mitsui Mihama," "Chotoyama," and "Kahama" on his works. Hoshinobu's style of work included all the pottery techniques from China, Korea, and Japan that were admired at the time, such as Kochi (Hokka), Celadon, Old Blue and White, Shozui, Akae, Kinrande, Ninsei copies, and Goryeo copies, and he made all of these his own, going beyond mere imitation and creating new tea ware that reflected the tastes of the time in both design and glaze techniques.

(Yoshiaki Ito)

Source: Asahi Japanese Historical Biography: Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc. About Asahi Japanese Historical Biography

Japanese:

没年：安政1.9.18(1854.11.8)
生年：寛政7(1795)
江戸後期の京焼の名工。西村善五郎11代。京都の織屋沢井家に生まれ,13歳ごろに大徳寺大綱和尚の世話で10代西村善五郎了全の養子となる。文政10(1827)年7月,藤原光盈が『荘子』から選した「保全」の名を得る。同年10月,表千家の10代宗左(吸江斎)に伴われ,父了全と共に紀州藩の徳川治宝の別邸西浜御殿の御庭焼偕楽園焼に参加し,「河浜支流」の金印と「永楽」の銀印を拝領した。天保14(1843)年善五郎の名を長子和全に譲り,善一郎と改名,嘉永2(1849)年に鷹司家から「陶鈞」の字をもらい,陶鈞軒とも号した。弘化4(1847)年塗師佐野長寛の次男宗三郎を養子として迎えたころから和全と不和が生じ,陶技開発のための研究が善五郎家の財政を圧迫したことも重なり,嘉永3年江戸に下向し三井家を頼るが翌年帰洛の途中近江の大津に留まり,湖南焼を興す。同5年,高槻藩主永井直輝の御庭焼高槻焼に招かれたが,同年再び湖南焼に戻り,7年には,円満院門跡宮の御用窯を興し,作品には「三井御浜」「長等山」「河浜」といった印を用いている。保全の作風は交趾(法花),青磁,古染付,祥瑞,赤絵,金襴手,仁清写し,高麗写しなど当時賞翫されていた中国,朝鮮,日本のあらゆる陶技におよび,これをすべて自家薬籠中のものとして,単なる模倣をこえ,意匠・釉法ともに時代の好みを反映した新しい茶陶を作り上げた。<参考文献>中ノ堂一信『京都窯芸史』

(伊藤嘉章)

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