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Lot Essay
Fujiwara Yu was awarded the rank of Bearer of Important Intangible Cultural Assets (popularly called "Living National Treasure") by the Japanese government in 1980. He studied ceramics under the guidance of his father Fujiwara Kei (1899-1983) (see lot 112), who had achieved the same honorific designation ten years earlier.
In 1964 Fujiwara Yu taught ceramics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and took part in the first World Crafts Council International Conference in New York. In Japan in 1968 he was included in an important exhibition organized by the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, "A New Generation of Contemporary Ceramics," to introduce potters under the age of fifty likely to become well-known for their work. In 1976 he exhibited with his father in a show that included traditional Bizen wares in "Poteries de Bizen anciennes et modernes: Collection et oeuvre de Fujiwara Kei and Fujiwara Yu," Musée Cernuschi, Paris.
In 1964 Fujiwara Yu taught ceramics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and took part in the first World Crafts Council International Conference in New York. In Japan in 1968 he was included in an important exhibition organized by the Kyoto National Museum of Modern Art, "A New Generation of Contemporary Ceramics," to introduce potters under the age of fifty likely to become well-known for their work. In 1976 he exhibited with his father in a show that included traditional Bizen wares in "Poteries de Bizen anciennes et modernes: Collection et oeuvre de Fujiwara Kei and Fujiwara Yu," Musée Cernuschi, Paris.