Square plate in style of Bizen pottery

Functional tableware like this plate demonstrates Kitaoji Rosanjin's interest in culinary arts, a major impetus for his involvement in pottery production. Rosanjin said, "When people ask me how I came to take up pottery, as they often do, I always answer straight off that it was because of my dedication to fine food. Ever since childhood I have had a passion for good food, one which increased over the years until I found myself no longer satisfied with meals which were only delicious and nothing more. Delicious food requires plates of a comparable level of beauty; without them it is incomplete."