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NAKAZATO, Taiyo NAKAZATO, Taiyo Hiradokoshodanuemon

Mikawachi Ware Hirado ware

SUMMARY

・The family business is more than 400 year history in Hirado-yaki productin.
・Nakazato Taiyo is now the 18th generation potter of the Hiradokoshodanuemon Kiln.
・He underwent ceramic training at Amsterdam and in Delft. He was studying English in the United States on another occasion.
・All works are made by throwing potter's wheel and with hand-crafted process.
・He cut small flower patterns to express a minute chrysanthemum.
・The cherry blossoms is also created, as wells as minuscule chrysanthemume. Those kinds of patterns are favorably received.
・He's making on contemporary works with skills that's been handed down for generations.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Mikawachi-cho, Saseboi-shi, Nagasaki prefecture in 1977
Education
Arita College of Ceramics, Saga prefecture (-1995)
Kyoei Gakuen Junior College (-1997)
Address
889 Mikawachi-cho, Sasebo-shi, Nagasaki 859-3155 Japan

CAREER HISTORY

Award
The Grand prix in the Mikawauchi-yaki ceramics exhibition (1994) The encouragemnet prize in the Nagasaki Ceramics Exhibition (2011)
The special prize in the Nagasaki Ceramics Exhibition (2012)
This Artist's Ceramics