1954-
male
tada pottery
The second generation of Unkeizan kiln. Born in Tada, Iwakuni City. Graduated from Hiroshima Merchant Marine Technical College. Worked on foreign routes as a navigator. After his mother’s sudden death, he left the company and helped his father, Unkei I, to revive Tada ware. His pottery name is Unto. Selected for the Asia Exhibition and others. He won the Commemorative Prize at the Toko-kokai National Exhibition and the Minister of Education Prize. Upon the death of his father in 1985, he assumed the name of Unkei II and succeeded to the Unkei Kiln in Tada ware. He has held solo exhibitions in major locations throughout Japan. He mainly works on tea ceremony pottery and vases using celadon transparent carving, relief carving, hollow relief carving, and flower vases.
Tada pottery
Tada ware is the name given to pottery produced in the Iwakuni-Yoshikawa family’s imperial kilns in 1700 as an offering to the Shogun’s family. It is said that in the same year, the Lord Yoshikawa invited a potter from Kyoto to build a kiln in the Tada area of Iwakuni City, where he taught the techniques to his vassals.
Records of the Yoshikawa family show that nearly 1,000 pieces of tada ware were offered to the family over a period of about 100 years until the kilns ceased to exist.
