Hajime Kai

1950 -
  • Ceramics
  • Awarded once at the Japan Kōgei Assoc. Exhibition
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  • Category
    Ceramics
  • Techniques
    Klin effects, Iron glaze
  • Born
    1950 -
  • Membership
    Member of the Fukuoka Prefectural Art Society

Style

I grind stones that can be mined from my hometown and make vessels with kiln mutation effects.

Biography

  • 1950
    Born in Saga Prefecture
  • 1969
    Trained at Kiko Imahashi Porcelain Factory
  • 1972
    Becomes trainee at Saga Prefectural Institute of Ceramics
  • 1976
    Builds the Inotake Kiln
  • 1986
    Bead Patterned Large Plate selected for the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time, selected 15 times from this year onward
  • 1989
    Becomes Full Member of the Japan Kōgei Association
  • 1995
    Took part in the "overglaze enamel porcelain” successors training program by 13th Generation Imaemon Imaizumi (also in 1996)
  • 2006
    "Utsuwa Yumekobo" broadcasted on NHK TV
  • 2018
    Iron Glaze Tea Bowl with Kiln Mutation Effects published in Honoo Geijutsu Magazine Separate Volume "Tenmoku"
  • Solo exhibitions at Ginza Kuroda Touen, Gallery Mino (Minami Aoyama) etc.
  • Took part in
    Asobino Symposium I, II at Saitoan, Hagi
    New Artist Wave Exhibition I, II, III (Tokyo Art Youth Association)
    Craftworks of Today in Kyushu and Okinawa – Tradition and Creation (Kyushu National Museum) etc.
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