Koyama Fujio (小山富士夫; March 24, 1900—October 7, 1975) was a scholar of
Japanese pottery and porcelain
is one of the oldest Japanese crafts and art forms, dating back to the Neolithic period. Types have included earthenware, pottery, stoneware, porcelain, and blue-and-white ware. Japan has an exceptionally long and successful history of cer ...
and
Chinese ceramics
Chinese ceramics are one of the most significant forms of Chinese art and ceramics globally. They range from construction materials such as bricks and tiles, to hand-built pottery vessels fired in bonfires or kilns, to the sophisticated Chinese ...
. He was also a potter in his own right.
Amongst his publications are:
* "Two Thousand Years of Oriental Ceramics" (1961).
* "The Heritage of Japanese Ceramics" (1973), translated into English from the original publication in "''Nihon Toji no Dento''" in 1967
He developed the category of the
Six Ancient Kilns The Six Ancient Kilns (六古窯 Rokkoyō) is a category developed by Koyama Fujio (小山富士夫 1900–1975) in the post-war period to describe the most noteworthy ceramic kilns of Japan.
The six kilns are:
* Bizen ware (備前焼, Bizen-yak ...
of Japan.
The
Idemitsu Museum of Arts in Tokyo dedicated a retrospective "''Tsuchi ni Asobu, To ni Manabu''" (Play With Clay, Learn From Pots) in the spring of 2000.
Associated people
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Sam Francis (Painter and potter)
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Hajime Katō (potter)
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Toyozō Arakawa
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Kaneshige Toyo
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Rosanjin
References
External links
* http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/koyama-fujio-jt.html
1900 births
1975 deaths
Japanese potters
People from Okayama Prefecture
20th-century ceramists
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