Kazunori Ichioka

Style

I make tea utensils, and my specialty is tea pots.
I try to express and assemble the atmosphere for enjoying tea with my work.

Biography

• 1989
  Studies under Kisui Murata
• 1996
  Becomes independent
• 2007
  Artwork (tea pot) made for technical reference purchased by Kyoto CIty
• 2013
  Builds a single chamber wood-fired kiln
• 2017
  Goes to Yixing, China for technical training to produce Yixing clay (purple clay) tea pots