Toyozō Arakawa
March 21, 1894 - August 11, 1985 was a well-known Japanese ceramic potter. He lived and worked in Mino, near Nagoya. He was given the title "Living National Treasure" in 1955.
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Toyozō Arakawa
- Born
- 1894. · Tajimi.
- Died
- 1985.
- Nationality
- Japan and Empire of Japan.
- Occupation
- ceramicist, potter and artist.
- Honours
- Order of Culture and Person of Cultural Merit.
- Languages
- Japanese.
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March 21, 1894 - August 11, 1985 was a well-known Japanese ceramic potter. He lived and worked in Mino, near Nagoya. He was given the title "Living National Treasure" in 1955.
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In 1930 he discovered shards at the site of the ruins of an ogama style kiln at Mutabora proving that that Shino and Oribe glazed work of the Momoyama and early Edo period in Japan had been manufactured in Mino rather than in the Seto area. In 1933 he built a kiln reproducing the original Mutabora kiln and rediscovered the techniques for manufacturing Shino glazes. He died in Tokyo, Japan in 1985. There is a translation of Arakawa's The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery in Janet Barriskill's Visiting the Mino Kilns Wild Peony Press, Sydney, 1995. His work is kept in several museums, including the Mills College Art Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Portland Art Museum, the ASU Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.
Toyozō Arakawa is recorded as ceramicist, potter and artist.
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1894
Toyozō Arakawa born at Tajimi.
1985
Toyozō Arakawa died.
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1059093316, Toyozō, Arakawa.
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- 1.Toyozo Arakawa: Biography. Mutual Art.
- 2.Winther-Tamaki, Bert. Earth Flavor (Tsuchi aji) in Postwar Japanese Ceramics. Japan Review. 32. 155. 2019. 26652954.
- 3.Moeran, Brian. The Art World of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics. The Journal of Japanese Studies. 13. 1. 30–31. Winter 1987. 10.2307/132585.
- 4.Arakawa, Toyozō. The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery.
- 5.Visiting the Mino kilns : with a translation of Arakawa Toyozō's The traditions and techniques of Mino pottery / Janet Barriskill. Smithsonian Institution.
- 6.MCAM - Covered jar. artcollection.mills.edu.
- 7.Museum, Victoria and Albert. Food Vessel Arakawa, Toyozō V&A Explore The Collections. Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections.
- 8.Kanbishi Tea Bowl. portlandartmuseum.us.
- 9.Arakawa Toyozō. Kohiki Chawan. Japanese National Living Treasure Collection. 1985.
- 10.Brooklyn Museum. www.brooklynmuseum.org.
- 11.Arakawa, Toyozo. Exhibition of Oriental Blue and White from the Collection of Mrs. John M. Allison. Hanshan Tang Books Catalogue #31. 31. 1957.
- 12.Shino straight-walled tea bowl with bridge pattern in underglaze iron-oxide, Arakawa Toyozō ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. collections.artsmia.org.
- 13.Exchange: Plate with white plum blossom design. exchange.umma.umich.edu.
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