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Kazuo Yagi, the Glossary

Kazuo Yagi (八木一夫, Yagi Kazuo, 1918–1979) was a Japanese potter and ceramic artist best known for spearheading the introduction of nonfunctional ceramic vessels to the Japanese pottery world.^[1]

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Japanese potters

Abstract art

Abstract art uses visual language of shape, form, color and line to create a composition which may exist with a degree of independence from visual references in the world.

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Antonin Raymond

Antonin Raymond (or Antonín Raymond), born as Antonín Reimann (10 May 1888 – 25 October 1976)"Deaths Elsewhere", Miami Herald, 30 October 1976, p. 10 was a Czech American architect.

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Art school

An art school is an educational institution with a primary focus on practice and related theory in the visual arts and design.

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Auguste Rodin

François Auguste René Rodin (12 November 184017 November 1917) was a French sculptor generally considered the founder of modern sculpture.

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In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Bauhaus

The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts.

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Buncheong

Buncheong, or punch'ong, ware is a traditional form of Korean stoneware, with a blue-green tone.

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Burnishing (pottery)

Burnishing is a form of pottery treatment in which the surface of the pot is polished, using a hard smooth surface such as a wooden or bone spatula, smooth stones, plastic, or even glass bulbs, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state, i.e., before firing.

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Carbon

Carbon is a chemical element; it has symbol C and atomic number 6.

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Ceramic

A ceramic is any of the various hard, brittle, heat-resistant, and corrosion-resistant materials made by shaping and then firing an inorganic, nonmetallic material, such as clay, at a high temperature.

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Ceramic glaze

Ceramic glaze, or simply glaze, is a glassy coating on ceramics.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Cizhou ware

Cizhou ware or Tz'u-chou ware is a wide range of Chinese ceramics from between the late Tang dynasty and the early Ming dynasty, but especially associated with the Northern Song to Yuan period in the 11–14th century.

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Clay

Clay is a type of fine-grained natural soil material containing clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolinite, Al2Si2O5(OH)4).

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Cockroach

Cockroaches (or roaches) are insects belonging to the order Blattodea (Blattaria). About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known pests. The cockroaches are an ancient group, with their ancestors, known as "roachoids", originating during the Carboniferous period, some 320 million years ago.

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Earthenware

Earthenware is glazed or unglazed nonvitreous pottery that has normally been fired below.

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Embroidery

Embroidery is the art of decorating fabric or other materials using a needle to stitch thread or yarn.

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Franz Kafka

Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-language novelist and writer from Prague.

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Freer Gallery of Art

The Freer Gallery of Art is an art museum of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. focusing on Asian art.

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Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai

Gendai Bijutsu Kondankai (現代美術懇談会, Contemporary Art Discussion Group, short: ゲンビ Genbi) was a study and discussion group founded in 1952 to facilitate interdisciplinary and cross-genre exchanges among Japanese artists based in the Kansai region.

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Gojōzaka

Gojōzaka (五条坂ごじょうざか Gojōzaka) is a street running from east to west in the vicinity of the Kiyomizu-dera temple, in the city of Kyoto, Japan.

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Gotoh Museum

The is a private museum in the Kaminoge district of Setagaya on the southwest periphery of Tokyo.

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Ikebana

is the Japanese art of flower arrangement.

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Ikko Tanaka

Ikko Tanaka (田中一光, Tanaka Ikkō, January 13, 1930 – January 10, 2002) was a Japanese graphic designer.

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Isamu Noguchi

was an American artist and landscape architect whose artistic career spanned six decades, from the 1920s onward.

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Joan Miró

Joan Miró i Ferrà (20 April 1893 – 25 December 1983) was a Catalan Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramist.

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Kiln

A kiln is a thermally insulated chamber, a type of oven, that produces temperatures sufficient to complete some process, such as hardening, drying, or chemical changes.

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Kofun period

The is an era in the history of Japan from about 300 to 538 AD (the date of the introduction of Buddhism), following the Yayoi period.

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Kyō ware

is a type of Japanese pottery traditionally from Kyoto.

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Kyoto

Kyoto (Japanese: 京都, Kyōto), officially, is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu.

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Kyoto City University of Arts

is a public, municipal university of general art and music in Kyoto, Japan.

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Military service

Military service is service by an individual or group in an army or other militia, air forces, and naval forces, whether as a chosen job (volunteer) or as a result of an involuntary draft (conscription).

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Mingei

The concept of, variously translated into English as "folk craft", "folk art" or "popular art", was developed from the mid-1920s in Japan by a philosopher and aesthete, Yanagi Sōetsu (1889–1961), together with a group of craftsmen, including the potters Hamada Shōji (1894–1978) and Kawai Kanjirō (1890–1966).

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Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce

The was a cabinet-level ministry in the government of the Empire of Japan from 1881 to 1925.

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Musée Cernuschi

The Musée Cernuschi ('Cernuschi Museum'), officially also the Musée des arts de l'Asie de la Ville de Paris ('Asian Arts Museum of the City of Paris'), is an Asian art museum located at 7 avenue Vélasquez, near Parc Monceau, in Paris, France.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto

The is an art museum in Kyoto, Japan.

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National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

The, also known as MOMAT, is the foremost museum collecting and exhibiting modern Japanese art.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nihonga

Nihonga (日本画) is a Japanese style of painting that uses mineral pigments, and occasionally ink, together with other organic pigments on silk or paper.

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Noémi Raymond

Noémi Pernessin Raymond (also spelled Noemi; June 23, 1889 – August 19, 1980) was a French-born American artist and designer who spent much of her career in Japan.

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Occupation of Japan

Japan was occupied and administered by the Allies of World War II from the surrender of the Empire of Japan on September 2, 1945, at the war's end until the Treaty of San Francisco took effect on April 28, 1952.

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Osamu Suzuki (ceramist)

(1926-2001) was a Japanese ceramicist and one of the co-founders of the artist group Sōdeisha (eng. "Crawling through Mud Association"), a Japanese avant-garde ceramics movement that arose following the end of the Second World War and served as a counter to the traditional forms and styles in modern Japanese ceramics, such as Mingei.

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Pablo Picasso

Pablo Ruiz Picasso (25 October 1881 – 8 April 1973) was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and theatre designer who spent most of his adult life in France.

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Paul Klee

Paul Klee (18 December 1879 – 29 June 1940) was a Swiss-born German artist.

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Philip Johnson

Philip Cortelyou Johnson (July 8, 1906 – January 25, 2005) was an American architect who designed modern and postmodern architecture.

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Photography

Photography is the art, application, and practice of creating images by recording light, either electronically by means of an image sensor, or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film.

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Pine

A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus Pinus of the family Pinaceae.

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Potter's wheel

In pottery, a potter's wheel is a machine used in the shaping (known as throwing) of clay into round ceramic ware.

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Pottery

Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form.

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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California.

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Sapporo

(lit) is a city in Japan.

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Sèvres

Sèvres is a French commune in the southwestern suburbs of Paris.

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Sōdeisha

, the “Crawling through Mud Association,” was founded by Kazuo Yagi and led by Yagi and two other founding members, Hikaru Yamada and Suzuki Osamu.

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Sculpture

Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions.

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Shibui

Shibui (渋い) (adjective), shibumi (渋み) (subjective noun), or shibusa (渋さ) (objective noun) are Japanese words that refer to a particular aesthetic of simple, subtle, and unobtrusive beauty.

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Smoke

Smoke is a suspension of airborne particulates and gases emitted when a material undergoes combustion or pyrolysis, together with the quantity of air that is entrained or otherwise mixed into the mass.

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Surrealism

Surrealism is an art and cultural movement that developed in Europe in the aftermath of World War I in which artists aimed to allow the unconscious mind to express itself, often resulting in the depiction of illogical or dreamlike scenes and ideas.

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The Metamorphosis (Die Verwandlung), also translated as The Transformation, is a novella by Franz Kafka published in 1915.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Yagi

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