1944-2018
male
tsuboya pottery
7th Generation Ryukyu Pottery, Tsuboya Ware, Potter.
In his grandfather Arakai Eitoku’s time, Yanagi Muneyoshi and Hamada Shoji became friends when visiting Okinawa, and from then on began producing works that crossed folk art style design with Ryukyu ware.
He received the Oki Exhibition Honorable Mention in 1964 and from 1966 through 1969, and the Oki Exhibition Award in 1970 and 1971, and he was nominated as a member of the Okinawa Exhibition Association in 1977. He won the Rookie of the Year Award from the Exhibition Ceramics Club of the National Artists’ Association in 1973, received the Minister of International Trade and Industry Award at the Okinawa Folk Art Promotion Exhibition, and the Chairman’s Award at the Traditional Crafts Industry Promotion Exhibition in 1975. In 1991 he was certified by the Minister of International Trade as a traditional craftsman, and in 2006 as a contemporary master craftsman.
