Okinawan / Ryukyu / Tsuboya ware *

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Okinawan ware (Unattributed)

Museum Examples
Tokyo National Museum

Kinjo Jiro 金城次郎
1912-2004
Living National Treasure 人間国宝 1985

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tsuboya pottery
Born in Naha. Began working with ceramics at the age of 13, studying under Hamada Shoji. Later apprenticed at a kiln-equipped shop that produced ceramics typically representative of Okinawa. Went independent in 1972. Certified as a prefectural intangible cultural technology property holder for Okinawan ceramics. Recipient of the Okinawa Times Art Award, Japan Folk Art Museum Award, Kokugakai Exhibition Excellence Award, Modern Master Craftsman Exhibition Labor Minister’s Award, many others. Permanent installation at the Romanian National Folk Art Museum. Exhibited at the Japan Ceramics Masters Exhibition. The Okinawa Crafts Exhibition (sponsored by the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto), and the Okinawa Prefecture Designated Intangible Cultural Properties and Crafts Exhibition. Solo exhibitions at Okayama Tenmaya, Matsuya Ginza, Seibu Ikebukuro, and others. Ryukyu pottery was designated a nationally-important intangible cultural property (national treasure), the first such designation in Okinawa. Primarily focused on painting atop engravings of fish and crustaceans.
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Kinjo Toshio 金城敏男
1935 – 2016

Kinjo Toshio 金城敏男
1935 – 2016
male
tsuboya pottery

Born in Naha. Eldest son of Kinjo Jiro, a living national treasure. Studied under his father, inheriting the tradition of yomitantsuboya-ware. Work takes advantage of the bright and generous climate particular to Okinawa, with dynamic fish patterns adorning the simple clay. Maintains the tradition of Ryukyu pottery handed down by his father. Father and son exhibition was held at Seibu Ikebukuro.
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Miyagi Sumiko 宮城須美子
1939-2019

Miyagi Sumiko 宮城須美子
1939-2019
tsuboya pottery
female

Born in Okinawa as the eldest daughter of Kinjo Jiro, a living national treasure. Along with her older brothers Toshio and Toshiaki, she inherited her father’s style of Tsuboya-ware.1939-2019
tsuboya pottery
female

Born in Okinawa as the eldest daughter of Kinjo Jiro, a living national treasure. Along with her older brothers Toshio and Toshiaki, she inherited her father’s style of Tsuboya-ware.
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Kinjo Toshiyuki 金城敏幸
1959-

Kinjo Toshiyuki 金城敏幸
1959-
male
tsuboya pottery
Born in Tsuboya as Kinjo Toshinori’s second son. He was the last apprentice of Kinjo Jiro.

1982 Apprenticed to Kinjo Jiro.
1983 Exhibited at the Kinjo Jiro Ichimon Kiln Exhibition.
1987 Awarded the Encouragement Prize at the Oki Exhibition.
1989 Exhibited at the 3rd Kinjo Jiro Ichimon Kiln Exhibition
1993 Encouragement Prize at the Contemporary Okinawa Ceramic Art Exhibition (daily-use ceramics section).
1998 Established the Zakimi Factory in Yomitan Village.
1998 Awarded Encouragement Prize at the Contemporary Okinawan Ceramic Art Exhibition (daily use ceramics section).
2000 Encouragement Prize at the Oki Exhibition.
2000 Awarded the Governor of Okinawa Prize at the Contemporary Okinawa Ceramic Art Exhibition.
2006 Technical Prize, Contemporary Okinawa Ceramic Art Exhibition (Daily Ceramics Division).
2007 Encouragement Prize, Contemporary Okinawan Ceramic Art Exhibition (Daily Ceramics Section).
2007 Ceramic Exhibition at Gallery Yoyo, Kasama.
2009 Independence
2009 Encouragement Prize, Contemporary Okinawa Ceramic Art Exhibition
2010 Ceramics Exhibition at Okinawa Liubo.
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Aragaki Eizaburo 新垣栄三郎

Aragaki Eizaburo 新垣栄三郎
1921-1984
male
tsuboya pottery

Born to Aragaki Eitoku V of the pottery family who creates Ryukyu ware in Tsuboya, Naha, Okinawa, he was familiar with pottery from childhood and received guidance from Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro, who had come to observe the folk art movement in 1939.
After graduating from Taichung Normal School in Taiwan in 1941, he worked in an elementary school in Shimane Prefecture. After the war, he worked in his hometown’s Tsuboya Elementary School from 1947 to 1954.
Following this, he began to devote himself to pottery, and received high praise at a number of exhibitions, including the National Artists’ Association Exhibition Ceramics Club. He was said to be a leading figure in Okinawan folk art alongside Kinjo Jiro.
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Aragaki Isao 新垣勲
1944-2018

Aragaki Isao 新垣勲
1944-2018
male
Tsuboya pottery

7th Generation Ryukyu Pottery, Tsuboya Ware, Potter.
In his grandfather Arakai Eitoku’s time, Yanagi Muneyoshi and Hamada Shoji became friends when visiting Okinawa, and from then on began producing works that crossed folk art style design with Ryukyu ware.
He received the Oki Exhibition Honorable Mention in 1964 and from 1966 through 1969, and the Oki Exhibition Award in 1970 and 1971, and he was nominated as a member of the Okinawa Exhibition Association in 1977. He won the Rookie of the Year Award from the Exhibition Ceramics Club of the National Artists’ Association in 1973, received the Minister of International Trade and Industry Award at the Okinawa Folk Art Promotion Exhibition, and the Chairman’s Award at the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Exhibition in 1975. In 1991 he was certified by the Minister of International Trade as a traditional craftsman, and in 2006 as a contemporary master craftsman.
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Aragaki Tsutomu 新垣勉
1950-2012

Aragaki Tsutomu 新垣勉
1950-2012
male
tsuboya pottery

Son of leading Okinawan folk art potter Aragaki Eizaburo, he is engaged in pottery making alongside his brother, Aragaki Isao.
Since receiving the Okinawa Prefectural Exhibition Honorable Mention in 1971, he remained active mainly in Okinawa Prefectural Exhibitions and solo exhibitions, receiving the 1972 Oki Exhibition Award, the 1973 Honorable Mention, and the 1974 Oki Exhibition Award, receiving awards for four consecutive years.
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Kobashigawa Eisho 小橋川永昌
1877-1952

Kobashigawa Eisho 小橋川永昌
1877-1952
male
tsuboya pottery

Also known as Kobashigawa Nio. A potter from the Taisho-Showa era. For generations, the family was engaged in pottery at Tsuboya, a town of government kilns during the Ryukyu Kingdom era. He was the third generation branch of the Kobashigawa family line. He was excellent at glaze blending. Nio, Kinjo Jiro and Aragaki Eizaburo are affectionately known as the Tsuboya Three Men, as they brought public recognition to Okinawa’s representative pottery, Tsuboya pottery.
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Kobashigawa Eisho 2nd 二代小橋川永昌
1909-1978

Kobashigawa Eisho 2nd 二代小橋川永昌
1909-1978
male
tsuboya pottery

Kobashigawa Eisho was a potter born in Tsuboya ,Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture. Also known as Kobashigawa Nio II. He is considered one of the “Three Potters of Tsuboya” along with Kinjo Jiro and Arakagi Eizaburo. Eisho studied pottery under his father, Kobashigawa Nio. Eisho is known for rediscovering the local materials used for the distinctive red enamel that characterizes traditional Okinawan ceramics.
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