Suzuki Osamu 鈴木治 1926-2001

Born in 1936 on Kyoto’s Gojo-zaka Street, a district known for its long-standing association with Kiyomizu-yaki pottery, Suzuki Osamu (1936–2001) entered the world of ceramics through inheritance. As the third son in a family of wheel-throwing potters, Suzuki was immersed from childhood in the technical and cultural traditions of Kyoto ware. After graduating from the Kyoto City Second Technical School’s Ceramics Department in 1943, he initially followed the path laid out before him, working with functional vessels shaped on the wheel, as his father had done before him. Suzuki’s trajectory...