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TOKUDA, Yasokichi
Potter
designated Important Intangible Cultural Asset (Living National
Treasure) in 1997
Biography
Born on September 14, 1933.
Born in 1933 in Komatsu. After leaving Kanazawa Fine Arts and Crafts
Junior College, learned from his grandfather Tokuda Yasokichi I and
studied Kutani Uwa-e picture glaze. Learned contemporary pottery and
porcelain from his father Tokuda Yasokichi II.
Accepted 1958 for the first Issui-kai Pottery and Porcelain Exhibition.
Awarded 1977 the Japan Traditional Arts and Craft Society Chairman's
Award at the 24th Japan Traditional Arts and Craft Exhibition.
Awarded 1990 Grand Prize of the International Pottery and Porcelain
Exhibition
Awarded 1993 the Purple Ribbon Medal by the Government of Japan.
Chairman of the Ishikawa Prefecture Pottery and Porcelain Association
Board Director of the Japan Arts and Crafts Society
Member of the Executive Committee of the Issui-kai Pottery and
Porcelain Department
Address: Komatsu, Ishikawa
A new world of Kutani pottery from the "Saiyu" technique.
Tokuda Yasokichi III has made great efforts to develop his
"Saiyu" technique based on the Old Kutani color glaze enamels handed
down from Yasokichi I. "Saiyu" is characterized by delicate shading
and beautiful contrast of the colors of the enamel glaze. Using this
original technique, Yasokichi III has created his own world.
Yasokichi III fires his Uwa-e overglaze works at a temperature
higher than that of conventional Kutani porcelain. He pictures the
color combination he wants in the completed work and mixes glaze
enamels to suit. The glaze enamels change into beautiful colors by
repeated firing and by adjustment of the firing time. In this way
refined and delicate works are completed.
What has distinguished Yasokichi is his bringing to life the
beauty of Aote Ko-Kutani (Green Old Kutani) in a contemporary setting,
and the way he thus explores new possibilities for Kutani glaze enamels.
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