YAMAMOTO Yûichi
(Japan 1935– )
- Title
- Bizen ware vase
- Other titles:
- Vase
- Alternative title:
- Bizen hanaire
- Place of origin
-
Japan
- Period
- Shôwa period 1926 - 1988 → Japan
- Year
- 20th century
- Media category
- Ceramic
- Materials used
- stoneware
- Dimensions
-
24.0 x 12.5cm
- Signature & date
- Signed on base, incised. Not dated. Signed l.l. of lid [associated NWA box], in Japanese, ink [inscribed] "Yûichi zô [made by Yûichi]" and artist's seal, in Japanese, ink [stamped] "Yûichi". Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Rev. Muneharu Kurozumi 1981
- Accession number
- 313.1981
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
The son of a potter, Yamamoto Yuichi started studying ceramics in 1959. Beginning in 1962, he exhibited on nine occasions with the 'Nihon Dento Kôgei' (Japan Traditional Crafts Association). He held his first one-man show in 1969 at Tokyo's Mitsukoshi store, and also exhibited with the Japan Ceramic Association and other exhibitions. Yamamoto works in the traditional Bizen style and resides in Bizen, in Okayama Prefecture.
- Bibliography (1)
-
Contemporary Japanese Ceramics 1991, 1991, 4. cat.no. 34
