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ASAKURA, Isokichi
Ceramics
Recipient of Order of Cultural Merits (1996)
Biography
Born on Feburary 26, 1913; died on April 9, 1998.
Born in Terai-machi, Ishikawa; real name, Asakura Yosaku. After learning the general techniques
of ceramics from his father Isokichi and the ones of overglazing from Tokuda Yasokichi I, a ceramics
craftsman, he became apprenticed to Kitade Tojiro. First award at Nitten, 1946. Councilor to Nitten,
1974. Prime Minister Award at Nitten, 1977. Japan Art Academy Award, 1981. Board member of Nitten,
1981. Class Four Kyokujitsu-shoju Medal, 1984. Member of the Japan Art Academy, 1984. Person of
Cultural Merits, 1992.
He opened new ground in the traditional Kutani Ware.
Asakura Isokichi has combined the use of color designs of Toikuda Yasokichi and the modern ceramic
world of Kitade Tojiro, and built his unique world of the modern Kutani Porcelain.
Asakura has created the new ways in the traditional Kutani Porcelain by originating the following
techiniques. Kokusai is the one where you make reliefs and mori-age on the raw
surface, carve sen-bori and to-hori, and color the work. jisho is the one
where you color the work, making use fo cracks made from two different kinds of clay.
He has innovated the conventional color glaze and established the world of his unique deep and
tasteful color designs, called "Asakura colors," as his own style. He was exhibiting
the silver-colored elegant works using platinum.
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*Lacquer work-MATSUDA, Gonroku/
MAE, Taiho/
AKAJI, Yusai/
TERAI, Naoji/
OBA, Shogyo/
SHIODA, Keishiro
*WoodworkHIMI, Kodo/
KAWAGITA, Ryozo
*Dyeing and WeavingKIMURA, Uzan/
HATA, Tokio
*MetalworkUOZUMI, Iraku/
SUMITANI, Masamine/
HASUDA, Shugoro
*Kiri-kaneNISHIDE, Taizo
*Ceramics
*PotterTOKUDA, Yasokichi
*Lacquerware Inlaid with GoldMAE, Fumio
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*Culture (traditional)/
*Culture (modern)/
*History and Environment(the Edo period)/
*History and Environment(the Modern Ages)/
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