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Introduction to ceramic pieces


My pieces are mainly pieces that are Greek or European (?) style water containers. However, I have no particular style in mind when I imagine and create the pieces, and have no recollection of being influenced by any other pieces.
I only create figures that I think are beautiful.

I almost never make pieces that incorporate simple Japanese-style naturalism or symmetry using electric power. I create, by hand, pieces that incorporate feminine soft curved lines with precise formation in mind.

The heart is mysteriously attracted to that which is the balance of beauty only asymmetrical pieces embrace. A potential for creation greater than in symmetrical pieces lies within.

I like to make the pieces considerably decorative with a narrow blade. The pieces have little practical value because they can tip over and break easily.

I think that as long as the piece is beautiful, the piece is good.


Title: Flower Bird






Title: [Undecided]



Ceramic is loved by people foremost because it is ephemeral.
And loved because the thoughts of the person who created that figure are endowed in the figure.
Among unlimited possibilities, that figure is a figure that only that person could create and obtain.

The value of that called beautiful is conceived from the formless by the hands of people.
The figure that a person draws out is the longing itself of that person.

It is probably for this that my pieces resemble objects endowed with life.








This piece is not a ceramic piece.
It is a watercolor painting of a picture copied when I was a high school student.

The model is a famous piece entitled (Property of the Tokyo National Museum).

The carefully balanced proportion and the gorgeous color combine to impress a feeling of orderly power and beauty.

I love this piece.





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