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Details
- Alternative title
- Kokutô sukurîn
- Place where the work was made
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Japan
- Period
- Shōwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Date
- 20th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware with black glaze
- Dimensions
- 54.4 x 28.0 x 13.5 cm
- Signature & date
Signed on lid [associated NWA box] in Japanese, ink "Yamada Hikaru zô [made by Yamada Hikaru" [and artist's seal]. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Rev. Muneharu Kurozumi 1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- 311.1981
- Artist information
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Yamada Hikaru
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About
Born in 1924 in Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Yamada Hikaru studied ceramics at Kyoto Technological High School (1943-45), intending to assist his father who was a ceramicist and Buddhist priest. In 1948 Yamada joined the Shinshōkōgeikai and in the same year became a founding member, along with Kazuo Yagi and Osamu Suzuki, of the avant-garde Sodeisha (Crawling through Mud) group. In the 1950s he lost interest in the Chinese Song dynasty-style ceramics that had previously fascinated him, becoming interested instead in two-dimensional sculptural forms. He participated in various exhibitions, including those of the Japan Ceramic Associaton and the Tokyo and Kyoto Museums of Modern Art.
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Places
Where the work was made
Japan
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Jackie Menzies, Contemporary Japanese Ceramics, Sydney, 1991, 4. cat.no. 32
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Jackie Menzies (Editor), The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Ceramics', Sydney, 2003, 271 (colour illus.).
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