Katsuhiko Urade

• Category
  Lacquerware
• Techniques
  Maki-e, Dry lacquer
• Born
  1955 -
• Based in
  Ishikawa
• Membership
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  Executive Board Member of the Japan Kōgei Association Ishikawa Branch
  Member of the Wajima Lacquerware Techniques Preservation Society
  Lecturer at the Wajima Urushi Art Technical Training Center
  Member of the Shikkokai
  Member of the Japan Cultural Property Lacquer Association

Biography

• 1955
  Born in Wajima City, Ishikawa
• 1973
  Studied under makie artist Shoichiro Tasaki
• 1979
  Selected for the 26th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time
• 1982
  Graduated from Wajima Urushi Art Technical Training Center, Makie Department
• 1983
  Selected for the Ishikawa Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time (selected consecutively from this year onward)
• 1989
  Selected for the 7th Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition for the first time (selected consecutively from this year onward)
• 1993
  Selected for the Contemporary Arts Exhibition, Ishikawa
  Trainee at the 1st Important Intangible Cultural Property "Hyōmon (metal sheet inlay)" Successors Training Course (by Living National Treasure Shogyo Oba)
• 1994
  Trainee at the 2nd Important Intangible Cultural Property "Hyōmon (metal sheet inlay)" Successors Training Course
• 2000
  Started restoration of the ceiling painting of Konpira Shrine, "Chery Blossom Patterned Makie on Wooden Base"
  Part-time Lecturer at Kanazawa Gakuin University
• 2003
  Evaluator at the Ishikawa Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (twice)
• 2004
  Retired from lecturer at Kanazawa Gakuin University
  Completed the restoration of ceiling painting of Konpira Shrine, "Chery Blossom Patterned Makie on Wooden Base"
  Becomes Member of the Wajima Lacquerware Techniques Preservation Society
• 2005
  Restored the mother-of-pearl inlay and makie of National Treasure "Box with Fusenryō Design in Mother-of-Pearl Inlay and Maki-e"
• 2006
  Submitted to the Japan Brand Exhibition at the Nippon Club, New York

Awards

• 1978
  Received the Artists Association Award at the Wajima City Art Exhibition
• 1982
  Received the Japan Urushi Association Award
  Received the Wajima City Benevolent Education Award
• 1990
  Received the Incentive Award at the 31st Ishikawa Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 1998
  Received the Ishikawa Governor Award at the 39th Ishikawa Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
• 2004
  Received the Wajima Municipal Assembly President Award at the Wajima City Art Exhibition
• 2005
  Received the Japan Kōgei Association Award at the 22nd Lacquerware Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
  Received the Wajima Kōgei Association Award at the Wajima City Art Exhibition