1931-
male
bizen pottery
After graduating from the National Kyoto Pottery Training School in 1950, Matsui Tomoyuki was apprenticed to the celebrated pottery artist Morino Kako. He was invited to work as an instructor at the Okayama Prefecture Bizen Ware Pottery Center, and began researching new shapes, yohen, and firing techniques of Bizen ware and continues to train young pottery artists.
Matsui also creates his own works, and was selected to exhibit for the first time in the 1966 Japanese Traditional Kogei Exhibition, and continues to be exhibited in this show and other Japanese pottery exhibitions. He was selected to become an official member of the Japanese Kogei Association in 1969.
He has also held solo exhibitions in famous department stores and galleries mainly in Okayama, Nagoya, and Tokyo, won the Kaneshige Toyo Award in 1980 and the Okayama Prefectural Cultural Honorable Mention Award in 1982, and was designated as an Okayama Prefecture Intangible Cultural Asset in 1996.
He has produced works in silver, indigo blue, and nerikomi using the traditional bizen ware techniques which he has developed through years of research on firing techniques.
