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SAKAI, Hiroshi SAKAI, Hiroshi Kozantoen

Mino Ware


SUMMARY

・The family business is the ceramic industry with mass production designed for restaurant tableware.
・Sakai-san was inspired from works produced by Kato Kozo who is one of the greatest Mino ware potter.
・After graduated from the Ishoken, he trained under Kato about the pottery wheel-thrown work.
・He's always creating his own style about new Shino ware in terms of shape, color, a ceramic cracked pattern and a sense of tension.
・His arts are worth seeing of crack pattern called "kairagi" appeared on the surface in a firm shape.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Toki-shi, Gifu prefecture in 1960
Education
Nagoya Institute of Technology
Address
1080-1 Dachi-cho, Toki-shi, Gifu 509-5401 Japan
Affiliation
Japan Kogei Association
TOBI, the Ceramic Art Society of Japan

CAREER HISTORY

Award
The Silver prize in the International Ceramics Mino Festival (2002)
The Iwakuni Museum prize in the Hagi Grand Prix of Contemporary Ceramics (2010)
The Mie Prefectural Board of Education prize in the Tokai Traditional Kogei Exhibition (2013)
The Grand Prix in the TOBI, the Ceramic Art Society of Japan Exhibition (2013)
The Interior Aqua prize in the TOBI, the Ceramic Art Society of Japan Exhibition (2018)
and many more
Selected
The Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition, The Tokai Traditional Kogei Exhibition, the TOBI, the Ceramic Art Society of Japan Exhibition and other exhibitions
This Artist's Ceramics