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Hamada Shoji (1894-1978)
Hamada was a ceramicist who advocated the folk arts movement. He once wrote, “I found my way in Kyoto, began in Great Britain, learned in Okinawa and graduated in Mashiko”.
In 1955, he was designated as the first Living National Treasure, and in 1968, he was awarded with Japan’s Order of Culture.
Shimaoka Tatsuzo (1919-2007)
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Mino Ware: Characteristics
Kizeto (Yellow Seto)
This is a yellow pottery created in Mino during the Momoyama Era. Tableware such as pots and bowls, vases, incense burners and containers were created in this style with tableware being especially common. The name comes from the description “…yellow pottery from Seto”. From the consumer’s point of view, because there [...]
THE BEGINNING OF MINO KILNS
In Tounou, the southwestern area in Gifu Prefecture, the manufacture of pottery through kilns started from the early Kofun, or Tumulus, Era of the 7th century; such pottery was called Sue Ware, or Sue-ki, and were fired in underground kilns carved into mountain slopes called anagama.
Sue Ware was brought over from [...]
Kato Takuo (born 1918)
Takuo Kato, who was the eldest son in a family for the venerable Koubei Kilns, was attracted by Persian ceramics on a trip to Iran while he was a student in Finland during the postwar period. He underwent through a lot of hardship as he experienced excavations in the desert, but succeeded [...]
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Tokoname Ware: Characteristics
In the Tokoname region, approximately 900 years after the end of the Heian Era, Tokoname Ware, instead of dying out, continued to be made as everyday goods.
Considered to be one of the “6 Ancient Kilns” of Japan; even on that scale, Tokoname is given great respect.
The earth of the Tokoname region was often [...]
Large Tokoname urns dating back to Kyoto circa 1100 AD were discovered at several historic sites at a time when it had been thought that the techniques behind Tokoname Ware had been complete and the product route to Kyoto had been finished. The kilns of Tokoname were quite large in number and scale and so [...]
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