Each decorated in a greyish glaze and tenmoku to the necks and rims, the bodies with overglaze decoration in red, with fitted wood box signed Shinsaku, sealed Shin and inscribed Akae shuki [a set of sake vessels painted in red]
13 cm. (5⅛ in.) high (sake bottles)
3.8 cm. (1½ in.) high (each sake cup)
12.7 cm. (5 in.) x 29.5 cm. (11⅝ in.) x 16.5 cm. (6½ in.) (fitted wood box overall)

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Hamada Shoji's son, Shinsaku studied industrial arts at Waseda University, Tokyo and after graduating apprenticed in his father's workshop. In 1953-54 he accompanied his father as an assistant on his first visit to the United States. Although there are similarities between the work of father and son - including the use of utilitarian shapes, Shinsaku's glazing and decoration tends to be more focused on rhythm and pattern compared to the simplified forms from nature and splash glazing employed by his father.