Kuroiwa Haruki – Hand-drawn Ceramic Bonsai Pot “The Samurai”
Bonsai Pot 13cm*13cm*13cm – Ceramic
Kuroiwa Haruki “The Samurai” ceramic bonsai pot
This ceramic bonsai pot is a small hand-painted piece by Kuroiwa Haruki, the Japanese ceramicist behind the “Samurai” motif drawn across its faces. It measures 13 cm wide, 13 cm deep and 13 cm tall, a compact cube scaled for shohin and mame work. What the photographs show is the pot on its own. There is no tree and no plant included with it.
The body is glazed stoneware, and the Samurai figure was painted by hand, so the brush lines sit slightly differently on each face. Because the decoration is applied individually, the drawing on this pot is its own. The small footprint and upright walls suit a young shohin, a mame conifer or a small flowering tree, and the cube proportion lets a modest trunk look bold rather than lost.
The Kuroiwa Haruki signature
Kuroiwa Haruki works in the Japanese ceramic tradition where the pot is part of the composition and not a neutral base. A narrative motif like the Samurai turns a small container into a talking point, and collectors of shohin often hunt specifically for character pots of this kind to anchor a display shelf.
About this piece
You receive the exact 13 × 13 × 13 cm cube in the images, with its own glaze and its own rendering of the Samurai, a drainage hole in the base and an unglazed foot. On a small stand it has presence well beyond its size, holding its corner of a shohin display with confidence.
A characterful little pot for a grower who likes the container to tell its own story alongside the tree.
Because of its size it also works well displayed on its own between repottings, a small ceramic object that stands up on a shelf in its own right.
