Kei Yasukawa

Style

In his work YASUKAWA aims to bring out the contrasting beauty found between the blackish green of natural glaze carbonized in an anagama (cave) kiln and the white interior with traces of brushing and rose-colored gohonte (spots).

Biography

• 1979
  Studied under SATO Hosen
• 1987
  Established an anagama kiln and started production of ceramics in Tanegashima, Kagoshima Prefecture
• 1989
  Established his kiln in Yakuoji, Koga City
• 1990
  Selected for the West Japan Arts and Crafts Exhibition
• 1991
  Selected for the Western Japan Ceramic Exhibition
• 1993
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  Selected for the West Japan Arts and Crafts Exhibition
• 2002
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 2007
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 2008
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
• 2009
  Submitted to the “Crafts and Arts of Today” Exhibition at the Kyushu National Museum

Awards

• 1995
  Received the Asahi Shimbun Social Welfare Organization Award at the West Japan Art and Crafts Exhibition