Taizo Kuroda
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Title: White Porcelain Vase
Year: circa 2006
Medium: white porcelain
Dimensions: 36.1 x 15.4 x 15.4 cm (14 1/4 x 6 x 6 in.)
Born in Shiga Prefecture, Japan in 1946; died in 2021. Kuroda studied in Canada under the potter Gaétan Beaudin, and in Japan under Tatsuzo Shimaoka (holder of an Important Intangible Cultural Property), a senior disciple of Shoji Hamada, who revitalized Mashiko ware. He built a kiln in Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture in 1991, and from then on pursued white porcelain single-mindedly. Meiping vases, footed plates and cylinders were the principal forms, and throughout his life Kuroda continued to work solely in wheel-thrown, unglazed white porcelain. In the unglazed, unyielding white, Kuroda's rigorous aesthetic sense, penetrating to the smallest detail, is vividly revealed. He regarded the architect Tadao Ando as a revered friend.
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