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KUMAMOTO, Yoshihiro KUMAMOTO, Yoshihiro Kumamotoyoshihiro Kiln

Seiji

SUMMARY

・Kumamoto trained for seven years under KIMURA, Morikazu who was the master in Tenmoku ceramic.
・He returned to hometown and established his pottery starting production of Tenmoku called "Nogime" and "Yuteki".
・One day a dyeing artist recommended that he makes celadon, at that time KUMAMOTO increasingly hopes to create greenish Seiji,
・The Katakiribori skill is used and he also puts geometric pattern into his work which shows us warmth and history.
・He makes another kind of Seiji that is thickly glazed with celadon enamel and turns bruish by reduction firing.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Kashima-shi, Saga prefecture in 1944
Education
Aichi prefectural Seto pottery college
Address
4050-3 Hamamachi-ko, Kashima-shi, Saga 849-1322 Japan
Affiliation
Japan Kogei Association
Saga Ceramic Art Association

CAREER HISTORY

Exhibition
Takashimaya, Osaka
TAKASHIMAYA, Yokohama
Kintetsu Abeno Harukas, Osaka
Selected
The Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition, The Exhibition of Traditional Kogei of SEIBU Area in Japan, The Kyushu Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition, The Nishi-nippon Ceramics Art Exhibition and other exhibitions
This Artist's Ceramics