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Ikeda Shogo 池田省吾

1976-maleBorn in Kagoshima, Japan1996 Graduated from Nippon Designer Gakuin Built a snake kiln and anagama kiln in Nishinoomote City, Tanegashima Island, and became independent. Produced Namban-yakijime, Oribe and Kohiki works.1998 Graduated from Kagoshima Prefectural Industrial Technology Center, Department of Ceramics1999 Graduated from Arita Ceramic University2008 He has had a solo exhibition every year at Flaming Fields in Tokyo. (more…)

Iguchi Daisuke 井口大輔

1975-maleBorn in Tochigi Prefecture 1998 Graduated from Tohoku University of Art & Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, Department of Ceramics 1999 Completed a research course at the Tochigi Prefectural Institute of Ceramics, under Uraguchi Masayuki 2002 Selected for the 4th Mashiko Ceramic Art Exhibition (and many times since) 2004 Built a kiln in Moka City, Tochigi Prefecture. 2007 Selected for the 47th East Japan Traditional Craft Exhibition (and many times since) 2008 Judge’s Special Prize, 7th Mashiko Ceramic Art Exhibition 2011 Selected, 58th Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (61st selection) 2012 Selected, “Contemporary of Chanoyu”, Kikuchi Museum, Tokyo, Japan 2013 Exhibited (more…)

Akiyama Yo 秋山陽

1953-maleBorn in Yamaguchi, Japan1976 Entered Kyoto City University of Arts1978 Completed Postgraduate course in ceramics, Kyoto City University of Arts 2007 Contribution Award, The 25th Kyoto Prefecture Cultural Award Enku Award, The 4th Enku Grand Award Exhibition2008 The 21st Kyoto Fine Arts Cultural Award2010 Grand Prix, The 17th Mokichi Okada Award Excellence Prize, Contemporary Ceramics for the Tea Ceremony, Musée Tomo (2006)2011 The 52nd Mainichi Art Award, Mainichi Newspaper2014 Culture and Scholarship Award, Kyoto Newspaper2016 The First prize, Japan Ceramic Society (more…)

Yamada So 山田想

1979-maletokoname potteryBorn in Tokoname City, Aichi Prefecture. His grandfather was Yamada Jozan III, a living national treasure. His father was Yamada Jozan IV (Yamada Emu). 2002 Finished the Tokoname Municipal Ceramic Research Institute. Moved to Tajimi City, Gifu Prefecture to work. 2004 Moved back to Tokoname. He has been working under the guidance of his grandfather, Yamada Jozan III, and his father, Yamada Jozan IV. 2005 First solo exhibition at Gallery CEPICA, Tokoname. 2008 Solo exhibition at Sakae Mitsukoshi, Nagoya 2009 Solo exhibition at Kuroda Toen, Ginza, Tokyo 2010 Appeared on NHK’s TV program “Utsuwa Yume Kobo”, solo exhibition at (more…)

Funaki Michitada 舩木道忠

1900-1963malefujina potteryBorn in Fujina (now Tamayu Town), Shimane Prefecture. Graduated from the Western-style painting department of Tokyo Fine Arts School.Holds the Shimane Prefecture Intangible Cultural Property Shibuna-yaki Technique (1962)BiographyBorn into a family that runs the Funaki Heibei Kiln, a Fujina ware kiln. After studying Western-style painting at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, he returned home to take over the family business and became a potter. In the early Showa period (1926-1989), he participated in Yanagi Soetsu’s folk art movement, and was inspired by Hamada Shoji and Bernard Leach, and devoted himself to his work. He aspired (more…)

Imai Makimasa 今井眞正

1961-maleBorn in Kyoto as son of Imai Masayuki.1986 Graduated from Tokyo University of The Fine Arts, sculpture section.Received KUME –KEIICHIRO memorial prize2002 Received the prize for the outstanding arts new comer of Kyoto city.2010 Joined “Japonais Moderne (Modern Japan)” held under the auspice of the France NationalFine-Arts Society at Carrousel de Louvre, ( Paris, France.)2011 China Kaolin International Ceramic art Contest (Jingdezhen, China)2013 “Kyoto KERAMIK”, (Handworks kammer zu Koln, Germany)The Exhibition “Art of KOGEI, Spilit of Kyoto 2013” (Vietnam Fine Art Museum, Hanoi)2014 “Beaute de la ceramique Kyo-yaki” (Maison de la culture du Japon, Paris, France)2015 The RIMPA School 400th (more…)

Furuta Oribe 古田織部

1543-1615maleoribe pottery Among Sen no Rikyu’s followers, seven people are thought to have been particularly excellent. One of those seven was Furuta Oribe. Oribe was a military commander, and also the lord of a province. He is more famous as a tea master than as a potter, but Oribe-ware was founded under the guidance of Furuta Oribe and produced many tea utensils with eccentric and innovative shapes and patterns that Oribe liked. When Sen no Rikyu was sentenced to death by the Shogun Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it is said that before he died, as he was being escorted across the Yodogawa (more…)

Ichikawa Toru 市川透

1973-malebizen potteryBorn in Tokyo.2011 Studied under ceramic artist Ochizaki Ryuichi.2015 Became independent in Tamano City, Okayama Prefecture. (more…)

Aoki Ryota 青木良太

1978-maleBorn in Toyama Prefecture in 1978. Works from a studio in Toki City, Gifu Prefecture. Through researching about 15,000 different glazes per year, he continues to create beautiful works that no one has ever seen before, using materials that are not usually handled in ceramics, such as gold, silver, and platinum. 2002 Won the Grand Prize and the Governor of Tokyo Award at the Tableware Festival, and the Encouragement Prize at the Asahi Modern Craft Exhibition. 2003 Received the Silver Prize at the Takaoka Craft Exhibition. 2004 Won the Silver Prize at the Sidney Myer Fund International Ceramics Award (Australia). (more…)

Fukagawa Porcelain 深川製磁

1894-arita porcelain Fukagawa Porcelain is a well-established manufacturer of Arita porcelain since 1894. Its history dates back to 1894 when it was established by the second son of Fukagawa Eizayemon of Koransha, which was also located in the town of Arita. The company is known for its clear blue dyeing and red painting, and the blue dyeing is also called “Fukagawa blue” and is well known by many people. In 1903, it was exhibited at the World Exposition in Paris, where it won the highest honor, the Medaille d’Or. Fukagawa’s porcelain with “Mt. Fuji and River” on the back has (more…)

Kumano Kurouemon 熊野九郎右ヱ門

1955-maleechizen potteryKumano Kurouemon’s kiln is virtually flat, angled at a mere two degrees. If a kiln is too steep, the heat keeps escaping upward. When using a flat kiln for firing, the kiln interior is able to reaches high temperatures due to heat pressure. [According to Kunamo,] flames survive at high temperatures and repeat oxidation and reduction of their own accord. (Kumano likens this to the breath of humans).For fuel, Kumano avoids red pine and uses split oak firewood exclusively.Kumano creates his ceramics works by firing them at the ultra-high temperature of 1520℃ (in a wood-fired kiln), a method that (more…)

NORITAKE CO., LIMITED ノリタケ

1904-The company was founded in 1904 by Morimura Ichizaemon (1839-1919) as Nihon Toki General Partnership Company. Its predecessor, Nihon Toki, was the first company in Japan to produce high-end Western tableware, which was exported in large quantities to Europe and the United States by the Morimura Group, a pottery and porcelainware trading company, during the Meiji era and before World War II. The early products were handmade and known for the beauty of their painting and the delicacy of their workmanship. Later, tableware based on the Art Deco style was produced in large quantities, and the elaborate designs are still (more…)

Tsuji Teruko 辻輝子

1920-2017femaleBorn in Nihonbashi, Tokyo, the eldest daughter of Tsuji Seikichi, an industrialist father, and Tomi, a mother. Becomes the first modern female ceramic artist in Japan. Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor Heise and Empress of Japan visited her home and studio. 1938 Graduates from Komazawa High School for Girls (later Komazawa Gakuen Girls High School).Studied ceramics under Omori Mitsuhiko and Tomimoto Kenkichi, and Japanese painting under Asaka Kinshiro. 1939 Exhibited her works at the New York World’s Fair. 1941 Exhibited her works at the San Francisco World’s Fair.Awarded a special prize at the Tokyo Contemporary Craft Exhibition.Built a kiln in (more…)

Tanaka Shinobu 田中忍

1962-maleBorn in Ureshino-cho, Fujitsu-gun, Saga Prefecture. 1987 Returned to his hometown and studied under his father Tanaka Kazuaki. 1996 The Minister of Education’s Honorable Mention at the Saga Prefectural Exhibition, and the Japan New Craft Prize at the Japan New Craft Exhibition. 1998 Excellent Prize at the West Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition. Second Prize at the Kyushu-Yamaguchi Ceramic Exhibition. 1999 Awarded the Newcomer Prize of the Saga Bank Cultural Foundation. Purchased the work “White Summer” from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2001 Awarded the Japan New Craft Honorable Mention at the Japan New Craft Exhibition. 2005 Served as a judge (more…)

Aoya Gen’emon 粟生屋源右衛門

1797-1863malekutani porcelainSon of Aoya Genbei, a potter in Komatsu, Kaga Province (Komatsu City, Ishikawa Prefecture). Using Toko, the same pen name as his father. At the Wakasugi Kiln, Aoya Gen’emon worked hard to acquire pottery-making skills under Honda Teikichi, and became a master potter at a young age, but he continued to study the style of Kutani ware, later called “Blue Kutani,” under the instruction of Teikichi. Even after Sadakichi’s death, he continued to strive for the revival of Old Kutani, refining the ceramic techniques of Raku ware that he inherited from his father, the techniques of mixing colored glazes (more…)

Honda Teikichi 本多貞吉

1766-1819malekutani porcelainBorn in Meiwa 3. Born in Shimabara, Hizen, the advanced area of porcelain production. In 4th year of the Bunka period, he established a kiln with Aoki Mokubei at Kasugayama in Kanazawa, Kaga, and started the revival of Kutani ware.Mokubei began to produce mainly daily utensils copied in red overglaze enamels, but was forced to return to Kyoto halfway through the project due to disagreements with the clan. On the other hand, Teikichi, who remained in Kaga, discovered high-quality Hanasaka pottery stones in the Nomi area and opened the Wakasugi Kiln under the guidance of Hayashi Yahei of Wakasugi (more…)

Kaburaki store 鏑木商舗

1822-kutani porcelainKaburaki store was established in Kanazawa, during the reign of the 11th Tokugawa Shogun as the first Kutani ware merchant family, and has maintained its good name for about 200 years.At the time of its establishment, there was a growing momentum to revive Kutani ware after the abandonment of the old Kutani kilns for over 110 years.In response to the wishes of the Kaga clan, the shop not only sold products purchased from various kilns, but also gathered master artisans to paint at its own workshop, thereby playing a role in the spread of Kutani ware within the clan.During (more…)

Sakaida Kakiemon 15th 十五代 酒井田柿右衛門

1968-malearita potteryBorn in Arita, Saga Prefecture on April 171991 Dropped out of the Department of Painting, Tama Art University1991 Started studying under Kakiemon XIV2010 Selected for the first time at the 45th Seibu Traditional Crafts ExhibitionSelected for the first time at the 57th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition2012 Became a member of the Arita Ceramic Art Association2013 Appointed as the president of the Preservation of Important Intangible Cultural Property Group (Kakiemon Pottery Technique Preservation Society)Became an official member of the Japan Kōgei AssociationAwarded the Kumamoto Asahi Broadcasting Prize at the 48th Seibu Traditional Crafts Exhibition2014 Succeeded the name of Sakaida (more…)

Saka Toraizaemon 13th 十三代 坂高麗左衛門

1952-2014femalehagi potteryReal name is Saka Junko. Fourth daughter of the 11th generation (sister-in-law of the 12th generation)2011 Assumed the name of Sakakorizaemon XIII.2014 Died of pneumonia on November 18, 2014. Age 62.The position of the 14th is vacant. Although the history of Saka Koreizaemon is long, they have kept the name until Saka Koreizaemon the 12th. However, the 12th died suddenly of a brain contusion caused by a fall in 2004. After this, there was no successor, and it was thought that the tradition of Saka Koraizaemon, which had been handed down from generation to generation, had come to an (more…)