Masamichi Yoshikawa was born in 1946 in Chigasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.

After studying industrial design at the Japan Academy of Design in Tokyo, he joined Sugei Junpei's design studio in Tokoname. There, he developed a passion for ceramics and continued his training before establishing his own studio in 1975.

Specializing in seihakuji, or blue-white glaze, Yoshikawa reinterprets traditional forms with a personal aesthetic featuring thick, bold, often architectural, sculptural porcelain forms covered with seihakuji glazes that gather and flow to create concentrated effects of color.

He also uses the technique of sometsuke, or underglaze cobalt blue painting, either to decorate his white-ground works with lively calligraphic motifs or to decorate the bases of his blue-tinted pieces with graffiti-like motifs.

Yoshikawa's unique talent and innovative reinterpretation of classical idioms have earned him national and international recognition. His international career truly took off when he won the Grand Prix at the 3rd Vallauris Biennale.

He has since exhibited his work worldwide, participated in numerous international symposia, and taught as a professor at Nagoya University of the Arts. A member of the International Academy of Ceramics (IAC) since 1984, Yoshikawa continues to influence the world of ceramics with his distinctive and bold creations.

11.2 x 37 x 30.5 cm