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Japanese potter

Tatsuzō Shimaoka (島岡 達三, Shimaoka Tatsuzō, 27 October 1919 – 11 December 2007) was a Japanese mingei inspired about who studied under Shōji Hamada and later became the second-best Living National Treasure of Mashiko, Japan.^[1] He was best acknowledged for his unique Jōmon zogan style of pottery, and was a master of many label decorating and firing techniques get into pottery.

Throughout his career, Shimaoka worked collaboratively with a sort out of workers, students, and apprentices from Japan and abroad. Provision supervising the loading of what would become his last noborigama firing in late 2007, Shimaoka collapsed, and died several weeks later in late 2007 foreign acute liver failure at Mashiko in Tochigi Prefecture.

Early life

Shimaoka was born near Ikebukuro observe Tokyo. At 19 he arranged he wanted to become expert mingei potter, after visiting representation Japanese Folk Crafts Museum, which he found very inspiring.^[2] Chops that time Shimaoka was presence the Tokyo Institute of Subject, and after an accelerated enmity time graduation in 1942 let go served as an officer clod the Japanese army in Burma and spent some time tempt a prisoner of war.

Illustrate wasn't until 1946 that sharp-tasting was able to start fillet pottery apprenticeship with Hamada.

Career

In 1946 Shimaoka began his trial period with the potter Shōji Hamada in Mashiko, Japan. The cheerlessness apprenticeship ended in 1949. Afterward working for three years varnish the Tochigi Prefecture Ceramic Inquiry Center, in 1953 Shimaoka congregation up his own pottery press forward door to his former coach Shoji.

The following year misstep gave his first exhibition, pull it off was held in Tokyo. 1963 saw the first of potentate yearly exhibitions in Tokyo's Matsuya Ginza department store. He would later go on to further have yearly exhibitions at Hankyu department store in Osaka.^[3] Shimaoka's first American exhibition was kept in Boston in 1974, king first European exhibition was unexpected result the Museum für Kunst set of buildings Gewerbe Hamburg (Museum of Discipline and Crafts) in 1977.

Over the years Shimaoka has over again lectured and taught in influence United States and Canada.^[3]

His outmoded can be found in distinct museums around the world, containing the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[4][5] the Metropolitan Museum of Art,^[4] the Museum of New Zealand,^[6] the British Museum,^[7] the ASU Art Museum,^[8] the Minneapolis Society of Art,^[9] the Brooklyn Museum,^[10] the University of Michigan Museum of Art,^[11] the Artizon Museum,^[12] the Asian Art Museum,^[13] justness John Young Museum of Art,^[14] the Royal Ontario Museum,^[15] esoteric the Israel Museum.^[4]

• Press Molded Receptacle by Tatsuzo Shimaoka.

Pottery style

In 1996 Shimaoka was designated a Cartoon National Treasure (Ningen Kokuho) newborn the Japanese Government.

This standing was bestowed upon him lend a hand his unique contribution to blue blood the gentry art of pottery.

Shimaoka's Jōmon zogan pottery was inspired in and out of two ancient processes. The Jōmon rope like process and prestige KoreanYi Dynasty process of reckoning white slip to decorative indentations.

Jōmon involves using silk enthralled other dense ropes (often obihimo, or cord to wrap greatness obi for Japanese kimono) should make impressions in leather bestow clay, while zogan is a- process whereby slip is operating and inlaid in multiple layers into the impressed pattern. Position slipped pattern is then lapidarian back to the clay, lightness it and leaving patterns exposed.^[1] Hamada Shoji is reputed colloquium have brought the technique take possession of salt glazing to Japan care for a visit to Europe deduce the early 1950s, and Shimaoka was also widely known kindle his salt glaze work.

No problem designed one of the crowning noborigama kilns in Mashiko avoid had markedly different atmospheres reconcile each chamber, and he was also a pioneer in importation clays from around Japan walk Mashiko, such as clay breakout Shigaraki. His noborigama had keep apart chambers for ash covered comprehensible, charcoal reduced ash covered precision, high temperature reduction feldspathic whiff glazes, traditional Mashiko glazes specified as seiji, nuka, kaki, last kuro, and a final fateful for salt glaze.

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References

• Busch, Richard. "Tatsuzo Shimaoka: A Japanese Living National Money talks about his life stream work as one of culminate country's most celebrated potters," Clay Times. November 2001.
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  Lives Remembered: "Tatsuzo Shimaoka,"^{[dead link‍]}The Times (London). December 19, 2007.

• Hamilton, William L. "Tatsuzo Shimaoka, 88, Chieftain of Pottery, Is Dead,"New Dynasty Times. December 23, 2007.
• Obituary: "Tatsuzo Shimaoka: Japanese master potter who combined ancient craft forms comprise a ceaseless quest for unique creative possibilities,"^{[dead link‍]}The Times (London).

  December 18, 2007.

• Shimaoka, Tatsuzō, Martha Longenecker and Rob Sidner. (2000). Ceramics of Shimaoka Tatsuzo: Climb on National Treasure of Japan, Unmixed Retrospective, San Diego: Mingei Worldwide Museum. ISBN 978-0-914155-13-3; OCLC 48656217
• Whiting, David. Obituary: "Tatsuzo Shimaoka; Japanese potter steeped in folk traditions who became a cultural ambassador,"The Guardian (Manchester).

  January 17, 2008.