1922-2006
male
kyo pottery
He is also known as Kiyomizu Kyubei. He began working with pottery while still studying, as the successor of his father-in-law the sixth Rokubey. After graduation, he won the Hokuto Prize and special prizes at the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition and served as a judge, but later moved away from pottery to devote himself to the world of 3D molding, and created avant-garde sculptures and works of spatial art.
After becoming a sculptor, he received numerous prizes at various sculpture exhibitions, such as the 1976 Mainichi Crafts Prize, the 1977 Japan Crafts First Prize, and the 1998 Nakahara Teijiro Prize.
In 1981, after the passing of the sixth Rokubey in 1980, he became the seventh Rokubey and created useful items such as tea cups and bowls, incense burners, and vases, but also had a novel sense of beauty in the world of pottery and created ceramic objects of art, taking his pottery in a different direction from that of previous Rokubey.
In 2000, he passed the Rokubey title on to his son Kiyomizu Masahiro, who became the eighth Rokubey, and returned to creating sculptures.
