Tokuda Yasokichi III

Awards:

1960 Komatsu-city Mayor's Award, Contemporary Art Exhibition, organized by Ishikawa Prefecture Art & Culture Association (also Mayor's award in 62, Governor's award in '61)
1964 Shizuoka Prefecture Governor's Award, Asahi Ceramic Exhibition (also Ishikawa Prefecture Governor's Award in '66, '68, '72, and Excellent Award in '70)
1971 NHK Chairperson Award, the 18th Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (every year since then winning several important prizes)
1977 Japan Art Crafts Association Patron's Prize, the 24th Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition (invited artist in '78)
1984 Ministry of Cultural Property purchased his work
1985 Northern Country Cultural Award, 400 Years of Japanese Porcelain, organized by Asahi Newspaper
1986 Japan Ceramic Association Prize,
Designated as a Cultural Property of the Ishikawa Prefecture for Kutani ware
1988 The 3rd Fujiwara Kei Memorial Award
1990 Grand Prize, 1990 International Ceramic Exhibition
1991 Prince Chichibu Trophy, the 11th Japan Ceramics Exhibition
1992 Prize by Prince Mikasano Miya
1993 Purple Ribbon Medal by Emperor
1997 Grand prize, the 10th Mokichi Okada Competition, MOA Museum, Atami
Designated as a National Living Treasure
Made an Honorary Citizen of Komatsu city, Ishikawa Prefecture

Solo exhibitions:

1986 "Egypt-Japan Week," Cairo, Egypt
Paris-Japan Culture, France
1987 Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
1988 “LA-Japan Week,” Japanese Consulate in Los Angeles, Los Angeles
Karinbô, Kanazawa
1990 "Moscow-Japan Week," Moscow Youth Hall, Moscow
1991 Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
Washington Culture Information Center, Washington D.C.,
Bank of Boston, organized by Japanese Consulate in Boston, Boston
Nippon Club, organized by Japanese Consulate in New York, New York
Japanese Culture Exhibition: Tokuda Yasokichi, Berlin
1992 Shizuoka Country Club, sponsored by Kawamura Foundation
1994 Lafyette Center Gallery and Consulate of Washington D.C. (exhibited as a part of Cherry Blossom Festival, Washington D.C.
1996 Solo show in Detroit
2000 Japan Cultural Center, Rome
2002 Iwataya, Kumamoto
2003 The Master of Yosai Porcelain: Tokuda Yasokichi at Seventy, Mitsukoshi Department Store Gallery, Tokyo

Group exhibitions:

1953 Entry to Contemporary Art Exhibition, organized by Ishikawa Prefecture Art & Culture Association thereafter, entered many times)
1963 Entry to Asahi CEramic Exhibition
Entry to Nitten exhibition (also in '64-'66, 68~and subsequently 4 times)
1964 Entry to Japan Contemporary Crafts & Art Exhibition
Selected for Berlin Art Festival in '65
1978 Japanese Vases 100, Suntry Museum, Tokyo
1980 Japanese Beauty: 100 Selected Works of Contemporary Ceramics, Tokyu Department Store Gallery, Tokyo
1981 Japan-Taiwan Contemporary Ceramic Exhibition, Taipei National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
1983 All Japan Traditional Crafts Selected Works Exhibition
30 Years of Traditional Crafts, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
1984 Japanese Ceramics: 100 Plates and Bowls, Suntory Museum, Tokyo
1989 Japan-Thailand 4 Ceramic Artist Exhibition, National Bangkok Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
1990 Japanese Contemporary Craft Exhibition, a travel exhibition to Northern Europe, organized by japan Foundation and National Museum of Art, Tokyo and Asahi Newspaper
1992 La Ceramique au Japon: Un Art Majeur 58 Createurs Contemporains, Mitsukoshi Etoile, Paris
1993 Japanese Contemporary Ceramics, a travel exhibition to LA, Portland, Dallas, Kansas City, New York, Washington D.C., organized by Japan Foundation
1995 Close up of Japan: Japanese Porcelain, organized by Ministry of Culture in Brazil and others, San Paulo, Brazil
Japanese Contemporary Ceramics: Three Masters, Japanese Consulate of Chicago, International Culture Center, a travel exhibition to Detroit
1996 Quiet Clarity "Rin": Beauty in Contemporary Ceramics, Shigaraki Ceramic Park, Shiga
2006 Cool & Sopshisticated: Contemporary Master Ceramists of Eastern Japan, Ibaraki
Ceramic Art Museum, Ibaraki
2008-2009 The Dauer Collection, California State University, Sacramento, University Library Gallery

Selected Public Collections:

British Museum, London
Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Ministry of Culture, Japan
National Museum, Tokyo
National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.

References:

Exhibition Catalogue: Quiet Clarity “RIN”: Beatuty in Contemporary Ceramics (Shiga: The Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, 1996): 58-61.

Ningen Kokuhô Tokuda Yasokichi shinsaku ten (Tokyo: Mitsukoshi, 1997)

Exhibition Catalogue: Kutani Saiyû-jiki: The Works of Tokuda Yasokichi; A Kaleidoscope of Imaginative Colors (Kunsthal Rotterdam, 1998)

Exhibition Catalogue: Sandai Tokuda Yasokichi Yôsai ten (Kumamoto: Iwataya, 2002)

The Legacy of Modern Ceramic Art, Part 1: From Artisan to Artist, The Evolution of Japanese Ceramic Art, exh. cat. (Museum of Modern Ceramic Art, Gifu, 2002), p.111.

Wege zur Japanischen Keramik: Tradition in der Gegenwart, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst zu Berlin, 2005

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