Tsuboshima Dohei 坪島 圡平 1929-2013

Beginning in the 1910s, pioneering ceramic artists such as Tomimoto Kenkichi (1886–1963), Hamada Shoji (1894–1978), Kitaōji Rosanjin (1883–1959), and Kusube Yaichi (1897–1984) began to treat vessels as vehicles for individual expression. Their innovations established the “object-vessel” as a significant mode of modern ceramic art. In the postwar period, artists like Kamoda Shoji (1933–1983) expanded this trajectory. Within this lineage, Tsuboshima Dohei (1929–2013) emerges as a figure in the world of ceramic connoisseurship, further expanding the expressive potential of the vessel through his skillfully expressive object-vessels. Entrance to the Hironaga Kiln...