Artists > Shiro TSUJIMURA

1947: Born in Gosei, Nara Prefecture.
1965: Left for Tokyo to learn the technique of oil painting. While learning it, attracted pottery intensively, inspired by a classic ido teabowl in Japan Folk-craft Museum possession and decided to take up pottery.
1966~68: Resided at Sanshoji, a zen temple in Nara.
1968: Returned to father’s farm. Began making pottery.
1970: Built own house in Mima, Nara City. During the next seven years, built workshop, teahouse, and seven kilns.
1993: Built a kiln in West Devon, U.K., and made potteries.


Public Collections
 Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U.S.A.
 The Brooklyn Museum of Art, U.S.A.
 Chado Research Center Gallery Kyoto, Japan
 Cleveland Museum of Art, U.S.A.
 Frankfurt Craft Museum, Germany
 Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, U.S.A.
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, U.S.A.
 Miho Museum, Japan.
 The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, U.S.A.
 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, U.S.A.
 Spencer Museum of Art, U.S.A.
 Stockholm Museum of Art, Sweden
 Museum of East Asian Art, Berlin, Germany
 Private collections