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Kumano-yaki is a traditionally famous local kiln in Kumano district, Fukuyama city, Hiroshima province. This chawan was created by a female potter Saragai Hisako (皿谷緋佐子). The look of the bowl is pretty interesting: it has pink gohon dots as we can see on the Hagi bowls and at the same time the stamped floral decorations of this chawan are similar to the Mishima ceramics. These nuances make a unique bowl that is hard to find, especially if we take into account the age of the potter, who was born in 1930. The potter's seal 緋 is stamped in the bottom part of the bowl.

The main milestones in Saragai Hisako life and career:

• 1930 born in Fukuyama City, Hiroshima Prefecture
• 1951 begins on the path of pottery at the Kumano ware kiln run by his father Zenzaemon. Then exhibited at the Hiroshima Prefectural General Art Exhibition (every time thereafter)
• 1954 exhibited at the New Crafts Association Exhibition (every time thereafter)
• 1958 formed female pottery association and became a public exhibition co-sponsored by the Mainichi Newspapers in 1967
• 1958 exhibited at the Hiroshima Prefectural General Art Exhibition and received an award (currently she is a judge)
• 1969 won first prize at the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition
• 1972 she became a regular member of the Japan Kogei Association. In the same year, her works were exhibited and won the award at the Japan Traditional Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition
• 1973 exhibited at the Japan Traditional Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition and received an award (currently a judge)
• 1974 received the Women's Ceramics Member Award at the Women's Ceramics Exhibition
• 1983 exhibited at the New Crafts Association Exhibition and received the Tomimoto Award.
• 1984 exhibited at "Yuzo Kondo and Ichimon Exhibition" (Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka, Niigata)
• 1960 exhibited at "100 incense burner exhibition" (Kyoto, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Okayama)
• 1988 appointed Deputy Secretary-General of the Japan Kogei Association China Branch
• 1992 received the Sanyo Shimbun Award (Cultural Merit). In the same year exhibited at the Japan Traditional Crafts Chugoku Branch Exhibition and won the Kaneshige Toyo Award
• 1993 received the China Culture Award (Chugoku Shimbun)
• 1995 solo exhibition at Mitsukoshi Nihonbashi store
• 2000 she was presented by the Imperial Household Agency

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Tezuka Toho (b.1942) is a second-generation master from Kyoto. He is the third son of first generation potter Tezuka Gyokudo. He start to study under his father and then in 1971 established his own kiln  after he was blessed to this by the head priest from Daitokuji Temple. In 2003 Tezuka-san opened another kiln and in this year was invited to become a member of the Kyoto Ceramics Association. Master regularly holds personal exhibitions in Kyoto and Tokyo and became very famous for his the mastery of application of overglaze enamels.

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