Rakusai Generation is a culmination of 1000 years of Shigaraki pottery. The family is one of the old potter families in Shiga and has been making ceramics for five generations. They built two kilns behind their house, making very traditional style vessels. On the left image is Rakusai III died on January 17 1976 (on Sunset). Takahashi Rakusai IV,...
From the middle to the late Edo period Fumai was the seventh generation of the Matsue Clan. One of the first ancestors of the tea ceremony and famous as a representative of the Edo period. At that time the Matsue Clan had a financial failure, and it was rumored "the roar will probably die", due to the crisis, with...
His lacquerware does not disturb the breathing of the wood, and the humidity of the rice is kept right until the container of the lunch absorbs it and is taken. Because moisture does not remain, lunch will be less likely to be damaged even during the hot season. A lunch box made by Mr. Mizoguchi San.
Hiroyuki Wakimoto's Profile -1952: Born in Nagasaki Prefecture Tsushima1975: Osaka University of Arts and Crafts School1981: Apprenticeship under Bizen ceramist Joji Yamashita1990: Start woodefiring of his own kiln at Higashisue Setouchi City Osafune.52nd Issui-kai Ceramics Exhibition Honorable Mention Award1991: 8th Tanabe Art Museum "chanoyu no...
新学/Manabu Atarashi(Japan,Mie 1973 - )
Ando Hidetake (b. 1938) was named an Important Prefectural Cultural Property in 2003, a status towards that of a Living National Treasure for his work on the research and revival of Mino ceramics which encompass Seto and Shino wares.In his own words.."What is so wonderful about Mino ware is this relation to nature, the uniqueness of every firing...
Born to a father who was a stone sculptor and a mother who was a flower arranger, Nahiko's artistic sensibility was cultivated from a young age. Eccentric, eclectic, after fighting for World War II he was one step away from becoming a hermit monk. Then something happened and he deepened all the arts like music, painting, sculpture leaving an...