1949-2004
male
hagi pottery
Also known as Sakata Deika the 15th. After graduating from university, he studied sculpture under Yanagihara Yoshitatsu, and after two years of overseas training, he began working as a potter under his father, Sakata Deika the 13th.
In 1978, he was awarded the Asahi News Paper Incentive Prize for his first entry in the First Exhibition of New Traditional Crafts. In 1989, he became a regular member of Japan Kogei Association, and since then he has been awarded prizes at the Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition, the Yamaguchi Branch Exhibition of Japan Kogei Association, and the Grand Prize Exhibition of the Tabe Museum of Art (a tea ceremony art exhibition), etc. He was expected to make a great leap forward as the next Sakata Deika, but he died in 2004 at the young age of 54.
After his death, he assumed the name of Sakata Deika the 15th as a honorific name, and Deika the previous generation has continued to produce pottery under the name of Deiju.
