Square bowl, rocks and flowering trees design, overglaze red on yellow ground.

Collection NumberA000073
TitleSquare bowl, rocks and flowering trees design, overglaze red on yellow ground.
Dateca.1954
Artist, Kiln, Workshop加藤土師萌　KATO Hazime
Name of prefectures & citiesYokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Description of worksBorn in Seto City, Aichi Prefecture, KATO Hajime was a ceramist who began his career apprenticing under a local ceramic painter, and later became a technician at Gifuken Tojiki Shikenjo (present-day Gifu Prefectural Ceramics Research Institute). In 1940, he decided to start his professional career as a ceramic artist and moved to Yokohama. In 1955, he became a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts to teach young students and to pursue his research on ancient Oriental ceramics and porcelain production techniques, including those of China’s Ming dynasty. In 1951, KATO successfully reproduced Oji-kosai (yellow-glazed, red enamel), a decorative technique used by the Jingdezhen kilns during the Ming dynasty. Using the reproduced technique, KATO coated the entire surface of this piece with yellow glaze and applied the patterns in red enamel. In 1961, KATO was designated a “Holder of Important Intangible Cultural Heritage” in the category of “iroe jiki” (overglaze polychrome enamel porcelain).

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