Born 1946, Chigasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Based in Tokoname, YOSHIKAWA MASAMICHI concentrates on creating seihakuji, or bluish-white glazed ceramic works. While celadons are traditionally celebrated for their thin and sharp forms, Yoshikawa creates sculptural forms in porcelain after his own aesthetic: thick, bold, and covered with pooling and dripping seihakuji glaze. He also paints with sometsuke, or underglaze cobalt blue, to fashion lively calligraphic designs on the surfaces of his functional work as well as beneath the feet of his larger non-functional forms. His unique technique and reinterpretation of these classical idioms have received both national and international recognition.
Tall rectangular vessel with dotted sometsuke design beneath seihakuji glaze
2021
Glazed porcelain
21 x 6 7/8 in.
SOLD
Tall rectangular vessel with cross-hatched checkered designs
2021
Glazed porcelain
21 x 6 1/2 in.
SOLD
Kayō; Gorgeous Effigy
2018
Bluish white-glazed porcelain
16 x 14 1/2 x 15 1/2 in.
Inv# 10887
SOLD
Kayō; Gorgeous Effigy
2015
Glazed porcelain
10 5/8 x 14 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.
Inv# 9350
SOLD
Hand-built cube-shaped ancient Chinese house-inspired sculpture with bluish-white seihakuji-glaze
2012
Glazed porcelain
10 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.
Inv# 8652
SOLD
Tall rectangular vase with sometsuke abstract design beneath seihakuji glaze
2012
Glazed porcelain
22 7/8 x 6 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.
Inv# 8650
SOLD
Kayō
2009
Glazed porcelain
10 1/4 x 9 1/2 x 9 in.
Inv# 6255
SOLD
Globular vase with subtle pattern created by indentations
2006
Porcelain with seihakuji glaze
11 x 10 7/8 x 10 7/8 in.
SOLD
