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SATOMI, Toshitaka SATOMI, Toshitaka Hiradokakusho Kiln

Mikawachi Ware Hirado ware

SUMMARY

・The family business producing the Hirado ware has continued for more than 400 years.
・Succeeding the skil painted elegantly, potters also develop the design that suits us today.
・What's important is that the operation of kotsugaki makes vertical lines to look straight.
・The dami work by thick brush is also siginificant in the trems of expressing shades of color.
・Toshitaka is the eighth generation of the venerable Kakusho kiln.
・The artworks with bamboo grove design please those who see them.
・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 grobal 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)