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TAKEMURA, Shigeo TAKEMURA, Shigeo Dainichi Kiln

Kyoto Ware

SUMMARY

・Takemura-san was born and grew up in Yamashina-ku, Kyoto prefecture.
・He learned ceramics under Kimura Morinobu who was a famous artist in the terms of glazed pottery.
・"Haiyu" - the natural ash glaze is main work and he makes glaze using materials cultivated in the fields.
・They are completely handmade graze which is mixed plant's branches and trunks such as sunflowers, grapevines and figs.

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Birth
Yamashina, Kyoto prefecture in 1953
Education
Hiyoshigaoka High School (-1972)
Address
110 Kanshujigoshouchi-cho, Yamashina-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto 607-8218 Japan
Affiliation
Japan Kogei Association
Kyoto Arts and Crafts Artists Association

CAREER HISTORY

Award
The Encouragement prize in the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition, Kinki (1996)
The Chairman of the Kyoto prefectural Board of Education prize in the Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition, Kinki (2007)
The Japan Kogei Association prize in the Pottery Exhibition (2010)
Selected
The Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition, The Japan Traditional Kogei Exhibition, Kinki, The Shinsho Kogei Exhibition, and other exhibitions
This Artist's Ceramics