
Photography by Fujiwara Minoru
Born 1950, Kyoto, Japan
FUJINO SACHIKO began her studies in the fashion design department at the Fujikawa Design School in Kyoto after which she embarked on a career as a fashion designer and fabric dyer. A pottery class first introduced her to the ceramic world and resulted in her enrollment at the Tetsukayama Junior College, where she became the pupil of the pioneering female ceramic artist Asuka Tsuboi (b. 1932). Fujino’s Japanese ceramics reflect her background in textiles in the crimping, folding, and tucking of her gently textured stoneware. She enhances this effect through the use of an airbrush device that sprays slip and occasionally colored glaze, adding depth to the otherwise unadorned surface. Her work is owned by many museums in this country.
Poster for Toucher le feu exhibition, Musée Guimet, Paris
Selected Public Collections:
Aprica Central Research Center, Japan
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
Brooklyn Museum, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Detroit Institute of Arts, MI
Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC
Musée national des arts asiatiques (Musée Guimet), Paris, France
Museo Internazionale delle Ceramiche in Faenza, Italy
Icheon World Ceramic Center, South Korea
Kyoto City Cultural Museum, Japan
Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Kyoto, Japan
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, FL
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Sumitomo Electronic Industries Company, Japan
Tajimi City Collection, Japan
Toki City Collection, Japan
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Imagery '22-5; Dark Blooming Form
Blossom-inspired sculpture on rounded form base sculpture with curling attached petal-like folds
2022
Stoneware glazed in gradations of charcoal gray with accents of light gray
13 3/8 x 13 x 13 in.
SOLD
Form 20-3
Stoneware with matte glaze in white and gradations of gray
2020
Stoneware with matte glaze
17 x 15 x 15 5/8 in.
SOLD
Form 20-2
Stoneware glazed in gradated layers of matte charcoal gray
2020
Stoneware with matte glaze
17 1/4 x 13 x 14 1/2 in.
SOLD
Interconnection ’15-10; Flower-inspired sculpture with rectangular elements wrapped with petal-like folds and spray-glazed in matte black, light gray, white and light yellow
2015
Stoneware with matte glaze
11 x 14 x 13 in.
Inv# 9614
SOLD
Interconnection '15-8; Flower inspired sculpture with curling petal-like folds and spray-glazed in matte black with gradated green
2015
Stoneware with matte glaze
11 x 14 1/2 x 13 1/2 in.
Inv# 9612
SOLD
Transformation 14-7; Flower inspired grayish-white matte glazed sculpture
2014
Stoneware with grayish-white matte glaze
12 5/8 x 23 5/8 x 20 7/8 in.
Inv# 9006
SOLD
Woman
1995
Stoneware with matte glaze
9 7/16 x 23 5/8 x 18 15/16 in.
Inv# 6551
SOLD