益子陶芸市【遺跡広場】

川西知沙さんは、しずく・森・雨・万華鏡などを、テーマに作られることもあるようです！

自然界の水・光の美しさをイメージさせるような作品ですね。乳白色のベースに、透明感ある釉薬が印象的。

使っていてやさしく、幸せな気持ちになりそうな陶器ですね！

富山出身のかたで、京都造形芸術大学卒業、栃木県益子町製陶所勤務、岐阜県多治見市陶磁器意匠研究所修了、などの経歴を持っていらっしゃいます。

大学でアートを学んでいらっしゃるので、お洒落なデザインなのですね！

I went to visit Eki noriko's porcelains exhibition in Keio Department Store, Shinjuku, TOKYO

I bought Eki noriko's porcelains. Eki noriko lives Mashiko-machi Haga-gun, Tochigi, Japan. 

The pottery's that I bought coler is like beautiful sea's blue.

Keio Department Store, Shinjuku, TOKYO(6th floor) is good to meet famous Japanese pottery shops-大倉陶園(Okura Touen)・源右衛門（Gen-emon porcelain）・ノリタケ(Noritake)・深川製磁（Fukagawa seiji）.

I recommend you want to go to the famous Japanese pottery shops in Tokyo at once. Those famous porcelains and pottery shops come from all over Japan. And They have a special temporary exhibition like Eki noriko's porcelains exhibition!

I visited to view cherry blossoms in a beautiful garden at hotel chinzanso in Tokyo.‎

It had Eisui Nogami's Kutaniware exhibision.

Eisui Nogami's Kutaniwares are brilliant and elegant.

お花見で訪れた江戸川橋の椿山荘。

野上映翆さんの九谷焼の展示をしていました！

華やかで、上品な作品でした。

椿山荘の荘厳な雰囲気、広大な庭園のグリーンと調和していました。

They are made by TATAMI(artist name).

Using Shiganaki clay.

They are forming by hand.

Handwork is natural and good for making original shapes.

たたみさんの作品です。

信楽の粘土です。手びねりで、自然で独特の形です。

I went JAPAN TRADITIONAL CRAFTS AOYAMA SQUARE* in Tokyo last week. 

東京の青山一丁目から5分ぐらいの、伝統工芸 青山スクエアに行ってきました‼️ 半蔵門線で渋谷よりほど近くの便利な場所にあって、皇居前で緑あふれる雰囲気。

JAPAN TRADITIONAL CRAFTS AOYAMA SQUARE exhibits and sells over a hundred kinds of selective traditional crafts such as ceramics, lacquered wares, woven textiles. 

全国津々浦々の日本の伝統工芸が一挙に見られます。場所といい、非営利団体ならではの贅沢さ。陶器の展示も多く、陶磁器もかなり扱っています。

There is pottery, from different parts of Japan. Good quality claft (pottery, glass ware, wooden craft) was sold. The price was reasonable. This traditional crafts showroom run by The Association recognized by the Ministry of Economy.

At this  showroom On Kato’s Exhibition was held. On Kato was qualified as the Mino ware, traditional craftsperson in 2009.

わたしが行ったときは、美濃焼の加藤音さんの展示をやっていました。葉脈やレンコンの模様、酸化の白雪釉の作品が素敵でした。

She is famous for using real leaf to make pottery(see the picture). She make pottery by thinking about forest-right, wind, smell in nature. She want to make pottery lifting someone up like music. 

近くには、イサム・ノグチの石庭が見られる草月会館や、ドイツ料理の美味しいドイツ大使館もあって、お散歩にもおすすめです。

At this exhibition, the pottery having pattern of Lotus root and the pottery glazed like water by On Kato ware amaging. (please check On Kato’s blog!) 

I read “ROSANJIN”.

Kitaōji Rosanjin* (北大路 魯山人, 1883–1959) was a noted artist and pottery designer and chef in  Japan. 美食家、アーティスト、陶器デザイナーとしても有名な魯山人の本を読みました。

He was born in Kyoto, at first became distinguished calligrapher.Then he ran an famous antique shop and a member-only restaurant in Tokyo.

彼はもともと京都で有名な書道家でした。その後東京で有名なアンティークショップを開き、会員制の美食倶楽部（レストラン）を経営したのですね。

His word“The dishwares ware as a cloth(Kimono) for food” is known.

器は、食べ物にとって着物（服）のようなものである。という言葉が有名だそうです。たしかに、どんな素材のいいひとでも服がよくないといまいちですものね。

魯山人の美意識の高さをよくあらわした言葉ですね。器の価値をよく言い表しています(^^)

(“ROSANJIN” edited by National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and Adachi Museum of Art, Mitsui Memorial Museum, NHK Promotions Inc., Nikkei Ink.)”

I went Shoji Hamada Memorial Mashiko Sankokan Museum* in Mashiko.

The Museum exhibits many items that the potter Shoji Hamada. Shōji Hamada (1894–1978) was a Japanese potter. He in 1955 became the first person to be designated a Living National Treasure.

Hamada was impressed by a Tokyo exhibition of ceramic art by Bernard Leach. Hamada accompanied Leach to England in 1920.  In 1924, Shoji Hamada, came to settle in Mashiko.

He promoted the Folk Crafts Movement with Soetsu Yanagi. They pursued an ideal that beauty in Everyday Crafts strongly.

Mashiko Sankokan Museum exhibits works by fellow potter and close friend Kanjiro Kawai, and Bernard Leach, with whom Hamada traveled to the UK and subsequently worked.

 I love Bernard Leach’s pottery. He painted animals on dishes, it so cute and good design.

*About Mashiko

** Mashiko Sankokan Museum

Address: 3388 Mashiko, Mashiko Town, Haga-gun, Tochigi

Phone: 0285-72-5300

Photo is OK at this museum

Ref.

Japan official guide

I went an excibition “Yoshihiko Yoshida - The Potter between Mashiko and Mino” at Mashiko Museum of Ceramic Art* in Mashiko.

Yoshihiko Yoshida (吉田喜彦) studied with renowned Mino potter and Living National Treasure Arakawa Toyozo (1894-1985) for 13 years. 

He studied painting at his hight schools days. His pottery is very soft and grace like Japanese traditional painting or "Rinpa"**.

Yoshida lived amid a forest in the hills of Toki City in Gifu Prefecture. I feel his work the beauty of forest and nature. I thought the form of his pottery is like a flower or walnut or coconut.

His potterys are not only beautiful but also good to use.

His work is excibited at Musée Guimet.

I read “日本の手仕事をつなぐ旅 うつわ (written by久野恵一(1947-2015))”

鎌倉でもやい工藝という陶器のお店をしていて、日本の民藝の運動に大きな影響を与えていた、久野恵一さんの本、“日本の手仕事をつなぐ旅 うつわ (久野恵一(1947-2015)”を読みました(^^)

I think the author thought good pottery had

(Of course the skill of forming and artistic quality is most important)

著者がいい陶器の条件としていることは、

（もちろん成形の基礎的な技術や芸術性があっての上のことだと思いますが）

●warmth 暖かさ

●ununiformity 均一ではない

●left-right asymmetric 左右非対称

●simplicit 単純さ

At Japanese culture the contingency and the natural is important by tradition(See). 

日本の文化では伝統的に、庭園などでも苔を生やしたり左右対称を嫌ったり、偶発性や自然さを大事にしますが、著者も手作りの持つ偶発性•自然さを大事にしていたのですね。

I read “日本の手仕事をつなぐ旅 うつわ (written by久野恵一(1947-2015))” He did for Arts and Crafts Movement (by William Morris) for pottery in Japan. He had a pottery(Arts and Crafts) shop,”鎌倉 もやい工藝.” The pottery in Japan had a big influence on Arts and Crafts Movement in Japan. The Japan Folk Crafts Museum exhibit works as to Arts and Crafts Movement in Japan.

I went Mashiko for Mashiko special pottery market. Big pottery festival held in Mashiko from 29th March to 8th May in 2016. It was a big pottery festival in Mashiko. About 500 tent shops are there.

I bought Eki noriko's porcelains at that festival. Ekinoriko Eki. Lives Mashiko-machi Haga-gun, Tochigi, Japan. She graduated Joshibi University of Art and Design.

This magnet tools are made by金子 司さん. He is a potter in Hagi(萩). The pattern of pottery is made by using a dropper. The colored clay is dropped by a dropper.

萩焼の金子司さんのきのこのマグネットです。わたしはあまりおしゃれにコーディネートできていませんが(笑)、展示会場ではもっといろいろな色やデザインがあり、とても美しかったです。金子さんは、たまたま知り合いのお兄さまで日本橋での個展にお邪魔しました。アパレルブランドとコラボレーションしたり、美術館でインスタレーションをしています。アート性の高くおしゃれな作品です。東京ドームでのテーブルウエア展の萩焼のコーナーでも拝見しました(^^)

About Hagi pottery

Reference blog

The pottery shop that his potterys are on sale

Hiroshi Teshigahara is the 3rd Ikebana Sogestu School headmaster and acclaimed filmmaker*. As the son of Sofu Teshigahara, the founder of Ikebana Sogetsu School, Hiroshi Teshigahara became the 3rd headmaster.

Hiroshi Teshigahara built Sogetsu Pottery Kiln in Echizen Town of Nyu-gun, Fukui Prefecture. 

The pottery in Echizen is fired chiefly at higher temperatures. Therefore, the pottery in Echizen often has the warmth of clay. Hiroshi Teshigahara pottery often took on distorted shapes. I felt his pottery, the warmth of the clay from distorted shapes, even if glaze pottery.

*Hiroshi Teshigahara has another well-known face as an award-winning filmmaker. The adaption film of Kobo Abe’s novel with the same title, “Woman in the Dunes,” won numerous awards. Hiroshi passed away in 2001. He introduced Japanese traditional culture – ikebana, tea ceremony, and pottery worldwide.

I have been to the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo the Crafts Gallery. Mutsuo Yanagihara 's work was very original.

Mutsuo Yanagihara is a famous potter in modern Japan. He is a Professor Emeritus at Osaka University of Art.

He uses silver or gold for his pottery. It is influenced by traditional Japanese painting¬ that use silver or gold -Rinpa. Also, he loves Oribe pottery.

His father is a doctor. So he can make pottery more freely than the man who is his father is a potter.

He learns potter at an art university in kyoto. Kenkichi Toyomoto-famous potter taught him in modern japan at that university.

He has been to America several times. He has worked at University in America. So he had influenced by modern American art-vivid color and form. 

Profile

1934 Born in Kochi Prefecture

1960 Graduated from Kyoto Municipal University of Art

1966 Invited to be a guest lecturer at Washington State University Ceramics Department

1967 Solo exhibition, Washington State University Art Gallery

Returned to Japan and became Assistant Professor at Osaka University of Art

1971 Accepted to Firenze International Ceramic Art Exhibition, First Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition

1972 Invited to be Assistant Professor at Alfred State College, New York

Assistant Professor at Scripps College

1974 Returned to Japan, holding many solo exhibitions around the country

2002 Awarded Gold Prize, Japan Ceramics Association Prize

At the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, the Crafts Gallery, we can see several pieces produced by modern artists, including bearers of important intangible cultural property.

I went art gallery of shibuya hikarie department store in  Tokyo yesterday.

The exhibition by eight potter was held.

I liked KAWABATA Kentaro's work.

His work was also populer at that exhibition.

The form of his pottery was like a shellfish.

The decoration is very vitreous.  It's very oliginal.

I visited Kaki-emon Kiln in Arita last holiday. At the Kaki-emon museum, We can see the 13th, the 14th, and the 15th, Kakiemon Sakaida. I prefer the 13th to the 14th(ex-the head of the Kakiemon family).

Yesterday I read a book(現代陶芸家列伝) about famous potters in Japan. In that book, 13th said 14th(ex-the head of the Kakiemon family), "Paint white space!"

I prefer 13th because of white space of his porcelain is beautiful at the Kaki-emon museum in Arita.

Also, You can see Kaki-emon porcelain within some period at toguri-museum in Tokyo.

(Yokoo was already closed in 2019!)

Yokoo in kichijyoji -cafe and pottery shop in Tokyo

The first floor is the cafe-yokoo. 

At yokoo we can have tea with pottery made by famous mashiko artist -kazumi yoshimura(吉村和美). The blue of her pottery Like beautiful ocean.

Now Kazumi yoshimura is popular and getting her pottery is difficult.