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*''Born: 1926''
*''Died: 2001''

Imaizumi Imaemon XIII was a [[porcelain]] artist from [[Arita]] in [[Saga prefecture]]. He was the successor to [[Imaizumi Imaemon XII]] ([[1897]]-1975), who was named a "holder of [[Intangible Cultural Properties]]" in 1952.<ref>Uchiyama Takeo, "The Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition: Its History and Spirit," Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere (ed.), ''Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan'', University of Washington Press (2007), 26-27.</ref> Imaemon XIII was himself named a [[Living National Treasure]] in 1989.

The inheritor of a long tradition of [[Arita wares]], Imaizumi also innovated, adapting the traditional ''fukizumi'' technique of creating splatter designs in cobalt blue into his own signature ''usuzumi'' technique, employing a brown uranium oxide pigment.

He was succeeded by his second son, who became Imaizumi Imaemon XIV. Born in 1963, Imaemon XIV is a graduate of Musashino Art University.

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