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25. Otagaki Rengetsu
RENGETSU, Otagaki Rengetsu
大田垣蓮月
One of the most inerrant names in the history of Kyoto pottery, is that of Otagaki Rengetsu.
She was not only a potter, but also a calligrapher and painter, and above all a poet of wakas, a classical poetic form of 31 syllables.
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In Japan, she is considered one of the greatest poets of the 19th century. In her pottery, she sought not perfection but purity and authenticity, with her engraved poetry also forming an important and integral part of the object itself.
Rengetsu pottery (蓮月焼, Rengetsu-yaki) is the name for the type of pottery produced by her, but continued to be produced long after her death,especially in Okazaki, a district near the eastern mountains of Kyoto, where she lived and worked for much of her life.
Otagaki Rengetsu was born on 8 January 1791 in Kyoto and was given the name Nobu.
Her mother is said to have been a geisha and her father a high samurai, Todo Yoshikiyo. Her mother abandoned Nob