Yamashita Mitsuo 山下碩夫

1946-?
Born in Tottori City, studied under Ikuta Kazutaka of Niwa in 1974, and built a kiln in Iwami-gun in 1970. Awarded the National Exhibition Newcomer Prize, the National Painting Prize, and the Society Prize. Awarded the National Exhibition Newcomer Prize, National Painting Prize, and Friend of the Society. Mainly works with porcelain and blue and white.

Uradome porcelain
From the end of the Edo period until the Meiji Restoration (1868), when the domain was abolished, porcelain was fired on the Uradome Coast for more than a decade as daily necessities.

Under the policy of encouraging domestic production, potters subsidized by the Tottori Clan invited potters from Izushi to build kilns at the foot of Ubagafutokoro, and brought pottery stones from the mountains from Tajiri to Oguri, where there was a fishing village.

In March 1971, a climbing kiln was built at the foot of Mt. Uradome, and using the same potter’s stone as in the Edo period, white porcelain, blue and white porcelain, and black polished porcelain were produced, mainly for modern household goods and crafts.
Uradome porcelain has once again returned to daily lives.

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