Tokuda Yasokichi I

Born: 1873
Died: 1956, February 20

Tokuda Yasokichi I was a Japanese ceramics artist credited with the revival of the Edo period Kutani style of porcelain works, which went into decline in the Meiji period. Though Yasokichi was named a "holder of Intangible Cultural Property" in 1953, he lost that designation the following year when the country's cultural protections frameworks were reorganized, and died before he could be inducted into the new system as a "Living National Treasure" in 1956.

His grandson, Tokuda Yasokichi III, was named a Living National Treasure in 1997.

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References

Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, Crafting Beauty in Modern Japan, University of Washington Press (2007), 16.