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NAKAZATO, Tsutomu NAKAZATO, Tsutomu Hiradoshozan Kiln

Mikawachi Ware Hirado ware

SUMMARY

・The Hirado Matsuyama kiln is the factory inheriting Hirado ware production for over 400 years.
・Tsutomu-san trained making underglaze blue porcelain under his father. He also learned at the gift shop, Tokodo in Tokyo.
・One of the characteristic Mikawachi picture called kenjokarako has been producing in the Matsuyama kiln.
・He is painting playing old chinese boys called karako that let people be aware of appreciation.
・He has the national qualification of Mikawachi ware traditional craftsman.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Mikawachi-cho, Saseboi-shi, Nagasaki prefecture in 1967
Education
Arita College of Ceramics, Saga prefecture (-1988)
Address
774 Mikawachi-cho, Sasebo-shi, Nagasaki 859-3155 Japan

CAREER HISTORY

Selected
The Nagasaki Ceramics Exhibition, The Kyushu Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition and other exhibitions