Tea utensils, tea ceremony tools, matcha tea bowl, copy of Ninsei, weeping cherry blossom, black interior, made by Shoka Kato

[Kato Matsuka]
1968: Graduated from the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramic Training Institute Design Department
1968: Joined Kyoto Iroe Ceramics
1972: Selected for the Kyoto Yakiiroe Ceramics Exhibition
1974 (Showa 49) Opened a tea pottery kiln under the name Matsuka
1975: Exhibited at the Kyoto Tea Ceremony Exhibition (Fukuya, Hiroshima)
1976 (Showa 51) Member of the Daitokuji Sakumu-kai
1977: Won an award at the Kyoto Prefectural Traditional Crafts Exhibition

1978, Showa 53, Exhibited at the World Craft Exhibition
1980: Exhibited at the National Traditional Crafts Exhibition
1981 (Showa 56) Won an award at the Kyoto and Kiyomizu ware exhibition
1982: Kyoto Shimbun Prize at the Kyoto-yaki and Shimizu-yaki Exhibition
Awarded (Mitsukoshi, Nihonbashi, Tokyo)
1984 (Showa 59) Exhibited at the Frankfurt International Exhibition in West Germany
Kyoyaki and Kiyomizuyaki Exhibition, Kyoto Shimbun Prize Preface (Takashimaya, Kyoto)
Exhibited at the Toronto Craft Fair in Canada
1985: Created the "Ninsei Yanagibashi Kaigu" for the Japan-US Cultural Exchange Tea Ceremony (San Francisco)
1988 (Showa 63) Won the Governor's Award at the Kyoto Ue-e Ceramic Art Exhibition. He has also held several solo exhibitions.

size	Approx. diameter 12.2 x height 7.7 cm
author	By Shoka Kato
box	Wooden box

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