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solo exhibitions group exhibitions awards monuments and ceramic walls public collections	1936 1955 1968 1969 1976 1977 1992 1993 1996 1997 1999	Born in Shigaraki Studied with ceramic desighner Sakuzo Hineno Graduated from Industrial Experiment Center, Shigaraki. Director of desighn section in the ceramic company Ohmi Kagaku Tohki, Nihon Toshoku Started to Studio "Zunkoe-kama " Became a member of the Japan Craft Design Association Revived use of the traditional Japanese" Anagama"natural firing kiln in order to reproduce classical style pottery "Ko-shigaraki" Started a second studio, "Kasei-kama" Studied Sueki, an old style of stoneware in Japan Started a third studio, "Iori-kama" Established the clay group Tsuchimon-no-kai Worked at the European Ceramic Work Center, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Instructed at Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent University in Ohio, USA Worked at" Atelier du Cep" in Aube, France Instructed at "Huara Huara Studio"and lectured in National Museum in Santiago, Chile Instructed at Cleveland Institute of Art and Kent University, Ohio, USA
solo exhibitions	1972 1973 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1999 2002 2003	Sogo department art gallery, Kobe Maruei department art gallery, Nagoya Mitsukoshi department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Yokohama Matsuzakaya department art gallery, Nagoya Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka Gakuenmae Art Gallery, Nara Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Fukuda Kougei Gallery, Shiga Akaneya Gallery, Nara Takashimaya department art gallery, Kyoto Irodori Gallery, Kyoto Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Gallery Kita, Nara Tobien Gallery, Nara Takashimaya department art gallery, Kyoto Masuiwaya Gallery, Osaka MODEM Gallery, Shizuoka Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo "Contemporary Ceramics and Textile Art from Japan, Kohyama + Tanaka", Myseum het Princesshof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands Das Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany European Ceramic Work Center, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka DE WITTE VOET Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Contemporary Ceramics and Textile Art", The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga Misawa Shiturai Gallery, Tokyo Gallery Miya, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Kyoto Toraya Gallery, New York, USA Avante Gallery, Cleveland, USA Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Kyoto Takashimaya department art gallery, Osaka Avante Gallery, Cleveland, USA Takashimaya department art gallery, Tokyo Takashimaya department art gallery, Kyoto DE WITTE VOET Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
group exhibitions	1957 - Shigaraki Setoukai Craft Show, Shiga 1958 - Shigaraki Seitoukai Craft Show, Shiga 1959 - Japan Craft Exhibition, Tokyo ( annually ) 1966 - Modern Interior Composition Element Show, Kyoto Interior Bureau, 1966 - Nick Gallery, Fukuoka 1966 - Young Artist in Shigaraki, Maruzen Craft Center, Tokyo 1967 - 4 Artist Show in Shigaraki, Ginza Matuya, Tokyo 1967 - Shigaraki Craft Show, Beni Gallery, Kyoto 1967 - Shigaraki New Desighn Show, Sogo Gallery, Kobe 1978 - 5 Contemporary Artists Show, Gallery Tosenbo, Kyoto 1979 - Japanese art and Craft Exhibition, Los angeles 1979 - Kohyama Studio Show, Ginza Matuya, Tokyo 1984 - Kohyama Studio Show, Gakuenmae Art Gallery, Nara 1985 - Kohyama Studio Show, Gallery Kaita, Tokyo( annual) 1985 - Kohyama Studio Show, Shinsaibashi Daimaru, Osaka 1986 - The world Ikebana Convention, Kyoto 1986 - Kohyama Studio Show, Takashimaya, Kyoto 1988 - Kohyama Studio Show, Hosaka Gallery, Yamanashi 1988 - Kohyama Studio Show, Higashiohji Gallery, Nara 1989 - Kohyama Studio Show, Ginza Matuya, Tokyo 1989 - Kohyama Studio Show, Uchida Hall, Osaka 1990 - Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art, Shigaraki Ceramic Park 1990 - Kohyama Studio Show, Toyota Anenue Gallery, Nara 1991 - Kohyama Studio Show, Shinsaibashi Daimaru, Osaka 1991 - Kohyama Studio Show, Toubien, Nara 1991 - Contemporary Japanese Craft Show, Mitukoshi, Osaka 1992 - Kohyama Studio Show, Matuzakaya, Mie 1992 - Kohyama Studio Show, Kokyouan Gallery, Osaka 1992 - Kohyama Studio Show, Washi Club, Osaka 1992 - Influence Works, Cleveland Museum, USA 1992 - Contemporary Japanese Ceramic, Everson Museum, USA 1993 - Benno Collection, Amsterdam Stedelijk Museum, The Netherlands 1993 - Contemporary Japanese Ceramic Show, Mitukoshi, Osaka 1995 - Craft in Shiga- Traditional Ceramic, Modern Museum of Shiga 1998 - SOFA-NY, Chicago, Browngrotta Gallery, USA 1998 - Contemporary Ceramic, Metropolitan Museum of Art, USA 1999 - SOFA-NY, Browngrotta Arts, USA 2000 - SOFA-NY, Browngrotta Arts, USA 2000 - Japan and The Netherlands 400 Anniversary, DE WIITE VOET Gallery, 2000 - Ceramics, Lew Allen Contemporary, USA 2001 - Great Shigaraki, The Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga 2002 - Ceramic Modernism, the Gardiner museum of Ceramic of Art, Canada 2002 - SOFA-NY, Browngrotta Ats, USA 2003 - SOFA-NY, Browngrotta Ats, USA 2003 - SOFA-NY. Chicago, Browngrotta Arts, USA
awards	1958 1959 1970 1978 1982 1983	Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition, Asahi Press award Japan Ceramic Design Competition Asahi Ceramic Art Exhibition Japan Ceramic of Sado and Kado Exhibition, Yomiuri Press Award The Traditional Craft Exhibition Shigaraki Ceramic Art Exhibition The New Ceramic Exhibition The Japan Exhibition The New Ceramic Exhibition
monuments and ceramic walls		The Helth Insurance Hall in Tokyo Harbour, Tokyo Kamome Housing Hall, Kanagawa Tennohji Gakkan, Osaka Bell Comons, Kagoshima The Culture lied under the ground Center, Shiga
public collections	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio, USA (1982) Everson Museum of Art, New York, USA (1992) Museum het Princesshof, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands (1993) Het Kruithus Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands (1993) European Ceramic Work Center, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands(1993) Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Germany(1993) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (1994) Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio, USA (1994) Kent University, Ohio, USA (1994) The Blooklyn Museum, New York, USA (1995) Stork-on-trent City Museum, Staffordshire, England (1997) St. Louis Museum, Missouri, USA (1997) Smart Museum Chicago Institute, illinois, USA (1997) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA (1998) The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada (1999) The Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, Shiga, Japan (2001) Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, USA (2002)