SHIBUNKAKU ONLINE SHOP | Suzuki Osamu

Suzuki was born in Kyoto to a family of ceramists. With like-minded artists Yagi Kazuo and Yamada Hikaru, he co-founded the avant-garde ceramic group Sōdeisha in 1948. Suzuki challenged the utilitarian attitude of traditional ceramics with his non-functional objects which he termed deizō or deishō (“clay figures” or “clay forms”). He served as a professor at the Kyoto City University of the Arts and was honored with the Asahi Award of Excellence in 1999.