Shunsai Hata

  • Metalwork
  • 1976 -
Shunsai Hata

I create designs giving an impression of transparency so that the viewer becomes unaware of the underlying iron; I make it a policy to create works unique to myself, by incorporating contemporary elements while maintaining time-honored traditions.

Membership Full member, Japan Kogei Association
  • 1976 Born in Takaoka City, Toyama Prefecture
  • 1996 Learned production of tea urn from father Shunsai II
  • 2009 Full member, Japan Kogei Association

  • 2007Received the Asahi Shimbun Prize at the 54th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
  • 2013Received the Asahi Shimbun Prize at the Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition
    Received the President of NHK Prize at the 60th Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
    Received the Grand Prize in Category 1 at the 7th Sano Renaissance Metal-casting Exhibition
  • 2016Received the Kumamoto Prefectural Traditional Crafts Center Prize at the Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition
  • 2018Received the Sekido Museum Prize at the Japanese Traditional Metalwork Exhibition
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