工房あめつち Atelier Ametsuchi, Ishikawa Japan

Go Nakagawa, Miho Nakagawa

Nomi City, Ishikawa, Japan

Ametsuchi is a workshop crearing Kutani pottery of a new style, run by Go and Miho Nakagawa. The pottery made by Ametsuchi is a direct representation of their kind-heartedness, and emanates compassion and calmness.  The husband, Go, uses milled material and a blue glaze to depict his unconstrained concepts, and creates pottery pf tender color palettes.  The wife, Miho, creates distinctive glazed enamels.  Although the spouses’ creative styles differ slightly, they resonate the same kind-hearted glow when used together, and show the expansive world of Ametsuchi.

Tokoname Sake Bottle and cups by Masashi Hirano

平野政志 Masashi Hirano

Masashi Hirano uses the traditional technique called Makayke (真焼け）(pure firing) instead of Yakishime（焼締め）or Shizennyu（自然釉）(natural ash glazing).

Mayake has a beautiful texture of a reflection of the fire frame, had started in the end of Edo period, and carried the technique by Toei kiln（陶栄窯）(specified to the important cultural assets) but since 1974, because of the lack of coal, the tradition keepers of Mayake has decreased. Masashi Hirano would like to pursuit the tradition using wood burning kiln without placing ash.

Tokoname Hachi (Large Bowl) by Masashi Hirano

Tokoname Choko by Masashi Hirano

Tokoname Coffee Cups by Masashi Hirano

常滑焼 by 山田想 Tomoname Yaki by Sou Yamada

山田想 Sou Yamada Born in 1979 in Tokoname.  His family has been making tea pots since Meiji period, and his grand father was the living national treasure. Sou has been making pots sonce 2002.

常滑焼 急須と湯のみ Tokoname Tea Pot & Tea Cups by Sou Yamada 山田想 (SOLD)

常滑焼 湯のみ Tokoname Tea Cup by Sou Yamada 山田想

常滑焼 湯冷まし Tokoname Yuzamashi by Sou Yamada 山田想

Yumiko Kuga is a Japanese potter living in New York City whose unique sensibility is defined by elegance, warmth, and graceful lines.  Her pots have organic shapes that are subtlety textured in a wide range of earthen tones.  They evoke images of the jubilant serenity of nature and are a celebration of life.

-Susan Coates, PhD, Columbia University

Yoshit Sasayama was born in Iga, Japan in 1953. He started learning Pottery in 1972 when he was businessman. He quit his job and became full time potter in 1986. He had his first solo exhibition in 1993. He has been having solo and group exhibitions since.

Akutsu Masato was born in 1976 and grew up in Mashiko Town, Tochigi, Japan which is famous for Mashiko Pottery. He finished the training couse at the Tochigi Prefectural Ceramics Training Center in 1999 and works at the Akutsu Ceramics Studio since 2000. He received Judge’s Special Award in Mashiko 4th Annual Pottery Convention.

Gaku Kuroda was born in Suwa, Nagano, Japan in 1948. He studied Pottery in Kyoto when he was 25 years old and moved to Hagi and opened his studio in 1977, when he was 29.