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Born 1951, Hagi City, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan
Born to the most celebrated ceramics family in Hagi, MIWA KAZUHIKO is the third son of National Living Treasure Kyūsetsu XI (1910-2012) and brother of Ryōsaku (b. 1940). Despite this lofty artistic heritage, he has striven through the decades to chart an independent path. As a teenager, he first was drawn by the work of clay master Peter Voulkos to study in the United States as it afforded him great artistic freedom. There he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute for five years. Since his return to Hagi, Miwa has continued to be challenged by his artistic environment and heavy mantle while at the same time presenting his clay art in challenging, thought-provoking ways and experimental new approaches. In May 2019, Kazuhiko assumed the family name of MIWA KYŪSETSU XIII at his brother’s retirement.
In his recent bold, angular and sculptural forms, the rich, creamy white Hagi glaze beads up revealing the red clay that sometimes fires to black. In addition to his bold sculptural work, Miwa also creates dynamic, elegant and sculptural tea ware.
Hagi style sculptural teabowl with unctuous crawling white glaze, inspired by a mountain form
2021
Glazed stoneware
5 x 6 x 6 1/4 in.
SOLD
Waterjar
2017
Glazed stoneware
8 x 8 in.
Inv# 10961
SOLD
Faceted jagged Hagi-glazed teabowl
2017
Glazed stoneware
4 7/8 x 4 x 4 3/4 in.
Inv# 10283
SOLD
White Hagi-glazed teabowl with jūji wari kōdai (cross-formed split footed) base
2017
Glazed stoneware
4 5/8 x 5 1/4 in.
SOLD
Hagi-glazed water jar with partly unglazed extended base
2015
Glazed stoneware
8 1/8 x 10 x 9 3/4 in.
SOLD
Vertical double-walled rectangular vessel with roughly carved walls covered in crawling white Hagi glaze
2009
Stoneware with Hagi glaze
22 7/8 x 12 x 7 5/8 in.
Inv# 7313
SOLD
Horizontal sculpture with two triangular, mountain-like protrusions covered in unctuous Hagi glaze
2006
Glazed stoneware
8 1/2 x 17 x 6 1/2 in.
Inv# 5333
SOLD
White and pale pink Hagi-glazed asymmetrical two-part sculptural vessel titled, Shiroi yume; White Dream
ca. 1991
Glazed stoneware
4 7/8 x 6 x 6 1/4 in.
SOLD