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SATOMI, Toshitaka SATOMI, Toshitaka Hiradokakusho Kiln

Mikawachi Ware Hirado ware

SUMMARY

・The family business in production of the Hirado ware has continued for more than 400 years.
・Succeeding the skill painted elegantly, potters also develop the design that suits our today's life.
・It's important to use the operation of vertical lines to look straight called kotsugaki.
・The process of work called dami drawn by thick brush is also significant in the terms of shades of color.
・The blue bamboo grove design attracts many visitors.
・Quality tableware are reproduced based on the design where they are popular during Meiji and Taisho period.
・All works are hand-painted like drawing a picture and they are valued with high skill from a global perspective.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Mikawachi-cho, Saseboi-shi, Nagasaki prefecture in 1971
Education
Kyoto university of education (-1993)
Kyoto-fu College of Potter Technology (-1994)
Address
689 Mikawachi-cho, Sasebo-shi, Nagasaki 859-3155 Japan

CAREER HISTORY

Award
The Yomiuri Shimbun prize and The NCC prize in the Mikawachi Pottery Exhibition (1999)
The Grand prix in the Nagasaki Ceramics Exhibition (2002)