1921-1979
male
Born in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. His father was the first director of the Ohara Museum of Art in Kurashiki, and Seijiro grew up with art and art from an early age. He went on to study at the Faculty of Economics at Chuo University, but was mobilised as a student and enlisted in the army. He lost his left arm in China, but after being demobilised he began making pottery in his home town of Kurashiki and built his own kiln in 1960. Influenced by the leading figures of the craft movement, such as Yanagi Soetsu, Hamada Shoji and Kawai Kanjiro, he used techniques such as mould-pressing, inlaying and neriage to create his ceramics, and left behind a body of outstanding works. Hamada Shoji commented: ‘I would like to say that Takeuchi Seijiro’s ceramics were made with his eyes rather than with his hands’.
