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Up for sale is this "12th Saka Koraizaemon (1949-2004) Hagi pottery cup #4531" If you have any questions please contact us before buy it. No reserve.
- width: approx. 8.4cm (3 5⁄16in)
- tall: approx. 10cm (3 15⁄16in)
- weight: 214g (gross 423g)
12th Saka Koraizaemon (1949-2004)
Real name is Saka Tatsuo. At university and graduate school, he mainly did research on Japanese painting techniques for solo exhibitions, but after graduating from graduate school, he married the daughter of the 11th generation Saka Koraizaemon of the Hagi-yaki Kiln, Saka Motoko and entered the Saka family as a son-in-law. He started pottery from 1984 after being at the Kyoto Industrial Research Institute for Ceramics and presented works at the Traditional Crafts New Work Exhibition, and the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition etc. In 1988, he received the NHK Yokohama Broadcasting Award in a New Works Exhibition, and in the same year succeeded to the name of 12th generation Saka Koraizaemon. In addition, since his first solo exhibitions at the Tokyo Kakiden Gallery and Fukuoka Tamaya in 1986, he has held solo exhibitions and those under his successive name every year at famous department stores and galleries nationwide such as the Tokyo Mitsukoshi Main Store, Takashimaya in Tokyo/Osaka/Kyoto, Yokohama Sogo, Hiroshima Fukuya, Okayama Tenmanya, and Niigata Mitsukoshi.
He died suddenly in 2004 at the young age of 56.
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