Toyozō Arakawa

Template:Short description Template:Nihongo<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name=":0">Template:Cite journal</ref> was a well-known Japanese ceramic potter.

He lived and worked in Mino, near Nagoya. He was given the title "Living National Treasure" in 1955.

In 1930 he discovered shards at the site of the ruins of an ogama style kiln at Mutabora proving that that Shino and Oribe glazed work of the Momoyama and early Edo period in Japan had been manufactured in Mino rather than in the Seto area.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite journal</ref> In 1933 he built a kiln reproducing the original Mutabora kiln and rediscovered the techniques for manufacturing Shino glazes.<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" />

He died in Tokyo, Japan in 1985.

There is a translation of Arakawa's The Traditions and Techniques of Mino Pottery<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> in Janet Barriskill's Visiting the Mino Kilns<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Wild Peony Press, Sydney, 1995.

His work is kept in several museums, including the Mills College Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Victoria and Albert Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Portland Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the ASU Art Museum,<ref>Template:Citation</ref> the Brooklyn Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Seattle Art Museum,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> the Minneapolis Institute of Art,<ref>Template:Cite web</ref> and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>

External links

• Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu page about one of Arakawa's works