Toyozō Arakawa Explained

^{[1] [2]} was a well-known Japanese ceramic potter.

He lived and worked in Mino, near Nagoya. He was given the title "Living National Treasure" in 1955.

In 1930 he discovered shards at the site of the ruins of an ogama style kiln at Mutabora proving that that Shino and Oribe glazed work of the Momoyama and early Edo period in Japan had been manufactured in Mino rather than in the Seto area.^[3] In 1933 he built a kiln reproducing the original Mutabora kiln and rediscovered the techniques for manufacturing Shino glazes.

He died in Tokyo, Japan in 1985.

There is a translation of Arakawa's The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery^[4] in Janet Barriskill's Visiting the Mino Kilns^[5] Wild Peony Press, Sydney, 1995.

His work is kept in several museums, including the Mills College Art Museum,^[6] the Victoria and Albert Museum,^[7] the Portland Art Museum,^[8] the ASU Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum,^[9] the Seattle Art Museum,^[10] the Minneapolis Institute of Art,^[11] and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.^[12]

External links

• Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu page about one of Arakawa's works

Notes and References

1. Web site: Toyozo Arakawa: Biography . 2024-02-15 . Mutual Art.
2. Winther-Tamaki . Bert . 2019 . Earth Flavor (Tsuchi aji) in Postwar Japanese Ceramics . . 32 . 155 . 26652954.
3. Moeran . Brian . Winter 1987 . The Art World of Contemporary Japanese Ceramics . . 13 . 1 . 30–31 . 10.2307/132585 . 1549-4721 . 132585.
4. Book: Arakawa, Toyozō . The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery . en.
5. Web site: Visiting the Mino kilns : with a translation of Arakawa Toyozō's The traditions and techniques of Mino pottery / Janet Barriskill . 2024-02-15 . . en.
6. Web site: MCAM - Covered jar. 2021-01-06. artcollection.mills.edu.
7. Web site: Museum. Victoria and Albert. Food Vessel Arakawa, Toyozō V&A Explore The Collections. 2021-03-26. Victoria and Albert Museum: Explore the Collections. en.
8. Web site: Kanbishi Tea Bowl. 2021-03-26. portlandartmuseum.us.
9. Web site: Brooklyn Museum. 2021-03-26. www.brooklynmuseum.org.
10. Web site: Arakawa . Toyozo . Allison . Effie B. . 1957 . Exhibition of Oriental Blue and White from the Collection of Mrs. John M. Allison . 2024-02-15 . Hanshan Tang Books Catalogue #31 . 31.
11. Web site: Shino straight-walled tea bowl with bridge pattern in underglaze iron-oxide, Arakawa Toyozō ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art. 2021-03-26. collections.artsmia.org.
12. Web site: Exchange: Plate with white plum blossom design. 2021-01-06. exchange.umma.umich.edu.