陶芸 彩泥窯 Pottery closely together with urban life Saideigama
gy1-5-1-1F Gyotokuekimae Ichikawa-city Chiba
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Introducing Saideigama's owner

Greeting

Saideigama is exactly what you can see from this site, are words often used from people who just joined our group. This atmosphere is exactly what I wanted to show through this Web site. Saideigama's original style and tradition in pottery, cultivating a friendly and harmonious atmosphere, is based on a modern curriculum of an overflowing essence and on an original management style. It is a place that differs a great deal from other pottery workshops.

Nowadays, as the number of old pottery kilns and ceramic mass production slowly decline, pottery is becoming a hobby or a subject of artistic interest especially for people living in the cities and urban districts. Therefore, taking into consideration this new pottery trend in other words the pottery that fits urban life, I my self would like to express my views about the beauty of pottery as the owner of Saideigama and as a ceramic artist as well.

Nakano Taku, Saideigama's Owner and ceramic artist

Taku Nakano's Profile

Date of birth: 1967, Hyogo Prefecture

Basic Information
Starts pottery in Shizuoka Prefecture and engages in several creative activities on his own.
In cooperation with his partner, he opens the first atelier in Shizuoka.
Participates and wins the first prize in the nationwide Fugaku Biennale.
Participates and wins a prize in the Masako pottery exhibition and consecutively wins in the same exhibition ever since.
His work is published and estimated by the Japanese Art Yearbook.
Participates and wins a prize in the Asahi pottery exhibition which becomes a turning point in his career. He has consecutively won in the same competition since then.
Resigns from his job in a large electronic supplying company and decides to become a professional pottery artist.
Opens Saideigama in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture. Builds the Saideigama kiln in Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture).
Opens the 7&I Shinurayasu classroom in 7&I Shinurayasu (York culture).
・Opens Saideigama, a new studio and the Saiya studio
Opens the Shinurayasu Mare classroom in Shinurayasuekimae Plaza.
Saideigama is moved to Gyotokuekimae.
The Sunamo classroom is opened in Minamisunamachi.
(His work is often covered by several television channels, magazines, radio stations and global newspapers)

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Creations
The meaning of Saidei

Mr. Nakano's original painting technique of creating various patterns and scenes through inserting pigments of color into mud.

Unlike the traditional coloring techniques (such as slipping), the pattern is developed by pouring one ore more color pigments (accumulated in clay) on a vessel at once. It is said that originally, pottery is an art concerned with how well someone can use fire and how well one can make a drawing. But according to this technique, the desired design is produced by the clay itself.

The creator has to take into consideration the speed/spread of the clay in order to concentrate on creating the desired pattern. The main creation theme is the Auroras (the northern and southern polar lights) expressing the universe's magnetic fields. A thin lower layer of color which is evident over an upper layer of color gives a three dimensional impression to the viewer. This is a new and innovative technique.   

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