Nobuyasu Watabe

• Category
  Lacquerware
• Techniques
  Maki-e, Urushi-e
• Born
  1947 -
• Membership
  Japan Association for Urushi Cultural Heritage

Style

I broadly use wood, bamboo, paper, ceramics, and dry lacquer as the body, keeping in mind the free creation of urushi art. Especially for ceramic bodies, I work on my own from forming through to firing, and in recent years have really enjoyed exploring this technique.

Biography

• 1947
  Born in Tokyo
• 1974
  Graduated from the Department of Aesthetics and Art History in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Tokyo University of the Arts
• 1985
  Selected for the 32nd Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  Selected for the 3rd Exhibition of Japanese Traditional Urushi Works and the Ishikawa Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  Lecturer of the Special Course at the Ishikawa Prefectural Institute of Wajima Lacquer Arts
• 1987
  Participated in the restoration work of the scabbard painting which was part of the “Hyakko Hisho” (Displayed at the Maeda Foundation Library)
• 1994
  Studied the Oribe’s Shelf with Design of Kokei Sansho, displayed at the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
• 1998
  Submitted to the International Lacquer Art Exhibition (Taichung, Taiwan)
  Lecturer of the Urushi core curriculum at the Ishikawa Prefectural Institute of Wajima Lacquer Arts (To present)
  Produced the Maki-e pipe organ façade at the Ishikawa Ongakudo
• 1999
  Participated in the restoration works of the ceilings decorated with Makie-e lacquer at the Konpiragu Shrine in Sanuki (138 pieces of Japanese cypress board, completed in 2004)
• 2001
  Invited to submit to the Contemporary Wajima Urushi Art Exhibition (Urasoe Art Museum)
• 2006
  Solo exhibition at Gallery Okariya Ginza, Tokyo
• 2009
  “Kawarinuri TALK&LIVE” at Wajima Museum of Urushi Art
• 2010
  Solo exhibition at Gallery Okariya Ginza, Tokyo
• 2012
  Solo exhibition at Gallery Okariya Ginza, Tokyo and Gallery SOU, Sapporo

Awards

• 1989
  Received the Incentive Award at the 30th Ishikawa Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 1991
  Received the Incentive Award at the 32nd Ishikawa Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition