Buzan Fukushima

Style

In my style, on Kutani ware hakuji (white porcelain) I use red pigment (main ingredient: red oxide) and gold to apply overglaze enamel painting; by repeating firing several times, I create finely detailed akae (red painting).

Biography

• 1981
  Selected for the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition for the first time
• 1987
  Full member, Japan Kogei Association
• 1996
  Produced bowls for the Emperor and Empress at their visit to the Prefecture
• 1997
  Selected by the Japan Foundation to take part in the Travelling Exhibition of Japanese Crafts (5 years)
• 2003
  Selected for the 17th Japanese Ceramic Arts Exhibition
• 2004
  Member of the Ishikawa Prefectural Intangible Cultural Property Kutani Ware Technique Preservation Society
• 2008
  President of the Kutani Ware Traditional Craftsmen Association

Awards

• 1982
  Received the Incentive Award at the Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition
• 1983
  Received the Asahi Shimbun Special Prize at the Creative Art Exhibition
• 1986
  Received the Hokka Award at the Creative Art Exhibition
• 1989
  Received the Nagoya Regional Bureau of International Trade and Industry Director’s Award at the Kutani Ware Industrial Design Competition
• 1990
  Received the Governor of Ishikawa Award at the Kutani Ware Industrial Design Competition
• 1995
  Received the Governor of Tokyo Prize at the Creative Art Exhibition
• 1999
  Received the Grand Prix/Prime Minister’s Award at the 23rd Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition
• 2000
  Received the Japanese Traditional Craftsmen Association President’s Award at the 24th Japan’s Traditional Craft Competition
• 2002
  Received the Grand Prize at the 25th Traditional Kutani Ware Crafts Exhibition. His work was later purchased by the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
• 2004
  Received the Excellence Award at the 27th Traditional Kutani Ware Crafts Exhibition. His work was later purchased by the Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art
• 2007
  Received the Excellence Award at the Ishikawa Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
• 2012
  Received the Creative Art Grand Prize at the 65th Anniversary Creative Art Exhibition