Selected Public Collections:
- Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Research Center
- Ariana Museum, Geneva, Switzerland
- Art Complex Museum, Massachusetts
- Aukland Museum, New Zealand
- Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama
- Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
- Emba Museum of Chinese Modern Art, Hyogo
- Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
- Japan Foundation, Tokyo
- Japan Art Academy
- Johnson Art Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- Kanazawa Gakuin University, Ishikawa
- Kure Municipal Museum of Art, Hiroshima
- Kyoto City University of Arts
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art
- Kyoto Prefectural Library Museum
- Marietta College, Marietta, Ohio
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Tokyo
- Musee des Decoratifs, Paris
- Musee Tomo, Tokyo
- Museo Municipal de Manises, Manises, Spain
- Museum of Decorative Art, Prague, Czechoslovakia
- Museum of Kyoto
- Museum of Modern Art, The House of Japan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu
- New Orleans Museums of Art, Louisiana
- The Museum of Ceramic Art, Hyogo
- The National Museum of Art, Osaka
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
- The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
- Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, Australia
- Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
- Portland Art Museum, Oregon
- Royal Museum of Decorative Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Saint Louis Art Museum, Michigan
- Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Korea
- Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence
- St. Louis Art Museum, MO.
- Takamatsu Municipal Museum of Art, Kagawa
- The Shigaraki Ceramics Cultural Park, Shiga
- Tokoname Education Committee, Tokoname, Aichi
- Vallauris Museum of Ceramics, Vallauris, France
- Victoria & Albert Museum, London
- Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art
- World Ceramic Exposition Foundation, Korea
Biography:
1934 Born in Kyoto
1957 Award in Nitten Exhibition
1958 B.A., Ceramics, Kyoto City University of Arts
1960 M.F.A., Ceramics, Kyoto City University of Arts
1962-63 Instructor, University of Chicago, IL
1966-68 Instructor, University of Chicago, IL
1979 Joined International Academy of Ceramic
Selected solo exhibitions:
2011 Art Space Vision
2004 The International Asian Art Fair, New York
2003 Takashimaya Gallery, Kyoto and Tokyo
1992 Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Tokyo (also in 1989)
1989 Wako Hall, Tokyo (also in 1982)
1979 Museum of Decorative Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark.
1968 Evanston Art Center, U.S.A.
1963 Art Institute of Chicago, U.S.A.
1960 Fujikawa Gallery, Osaka
Selected Prizes and Awards:
1960 Grand Prize and Hokuto Prize, Nitten
1966 Grand Prize and Hokuto Prize, Nitten
1968 Membership Prize and the Foreign Minister’s Prize, Japan Contemporary Arts and Crafts Exhibition
1983 Education Minister’s Prize, Japan New Arts, and Crafts Exhibition
1996 Kyoto Prefecture Culture Prize Merits Prize
1999 Laureate of the Kyoto City Award of Cultural Merit
2007 Japan Art Academy Prize