Teisai Mori

• Category
  Ceramics
• Techniques
  Bizen ware
• Born
  1949 -
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  Okayama Bizenyaki Touyuukai
  Full member, TOBI, the Ceramic Art Society of Japan

Style

With the new Yudasuki glazing and firing technique, in which glazes are added to traditional hizen firing, I am exploring the possibilities of the unprecedentedly beautiful firing effects of Bizen ware.

Biography

• 1949
  Born to the Mori family of the Terami lineage, one of the 6 Bizen ware kiln families
• 1973
  Graduated from the Department of Business in the Faculty of Law and Economics at the Aichi University
  Studied Ceramics under his father MORI Furai
• 1979
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1981
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1985
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1989
  Selected for the 1st Ceramics Biennale ‘89
  Selected for the 10th Japanese Ceramic Arts Exhibition
  Selected for the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition
• 1991
  Selected for the 2nd Ceramics Biennale ‘91
  Selected for the Yakishime Ceramics Exhibition
• 1992
  Selected for the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition
• 1995
  Selected for the Japanese Ceramic Arts Exhibition
  Selected for the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition
• 1997
  Selected for the 5th Ceramics Biennale ‘97
• 1999
  Selected for the Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
• 2008
  Selected for the Tanabe Museum of Art “Arts of the Tea Ceremony” Exhibition
• 2009
  Succeeded in the development of a decorating and firing technique called “Uwatasuki”
• 2010
  Volunteered to perform restoration work on the tail of the Bizen Ojishi statue at the Sumiyoshi Taisha, Osaka
• 2014
  Selected for the Tanabe Museum of Art “Arts of the Tea Ceremony” Exhibition

Awards

• 1991
  Received the Incentive Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 1993
  Received the Prefectural Exhibition Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 1994
  Received the Sanyo Shimbun Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 1995
  Received the Prefectural Exhibition Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 1997
  Received the Incentive Award at the Yakishime Ceramics Public Exhibition
• 1999
  Received the Sanyo Shimbun Award at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition
  Received the Okayama Board of Education Superintendent’s Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 2001
  Received the Okayama Board of Education Superintendent’s Award at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition
• 2002
  Received the Prefectural Exhibition Award at the Prefectural Exhibition
• 2007
  Received the 50th Anniversary Memorial Incentive Award at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition