Sansei Suzuki

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Sansei Suzuki began making celadon works after he was deeply inspired by a piece produced for the Song imperial court he encountered at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan in 1975. After many years and experiments in his search for the right ash for his glaze, he found that Japanese Zelkova wood ash would give him the colour he was looking for. Over the course of his long career, Sansei has won numerous prestigious awards including the 1988 Japan Ceramic Society Award and the first prize in the traditional ceramics category in 1992 at the Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition. He has exhibited at countless juried exhibitions, and his work has been collected by institutions such as the British Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.

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鈴木三成​

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千葉県市原市に生まれる。1955年から河村蜻山の北鎌倉の窯に弟子入りする。61年、独立し神奈川県小田原市に窯を築く。75年頃、訪れた台湾の故宮博物院の青磁に魅了され、以降青磁の研究に没頭する。87年、中国陶器の南宋汝官窯（宮廷用の青磁窯）の青磁に比肩する技術力を認められ、第9回日本陶芸展で《青瓷壷》が文部大臣賞を受賞。88年、横綱千代の富士国民栄誉賞受賞記念の副賞として青瓷壷が贈呈される。92年、英国大英博物館に青瓷壷が収蔵される。日本陶磁協会賞受賞の他、受賞歴多数。