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Shion Tabata

Shion Tabata - The Shape of Song

December 13th - December 22nd, 2024

Exhibition

展示風景

Since 2006, a Tabata Shion exhibition has been held every November at the Nomura Museum of Art in Kyoto.
This year, the theme is "The Shape of Poetry" and includes hanging scrolls depicting the Thirty-Six Immortal Poets.
Shion's paintings, calligraphy, and pottery, including copies of works by Ninsei and Kenzan, are on display.
These works will be on display at Ginza Ippodo in December.
In his younger days, he worked at the Tanimatsuya Toda Shoten Art Museum in Osaka, where he learned about and is a talented and hard-working man who is able to recreate the finest antique art.
This time she tried her hand at ancient Japanese waka poetry.

Keiko Aono

田端 志音

Shion Tabata

Born in Kitakyushu in 1947.
From 1985, he worked for Tanimatsuya Toda Shoten, a tea ceremony utensil dealer in Osaka, for five years.
There, he had the opportunity to see many masterpieces, and through this valuable experience, he entered the world of pottery making in 1991.
He looked up to Ogata Kenzan, who was active in Kyoto in the mid-Edo period, as his teacher and studied pottery making while striving to imitate Kenzan's style.
He received instruction from Master Tachibana Daiki of Nyoian Temple at Daitokuji Temple in Kyoto, Master Yuki Teiichi of the Japanese restaurant Kitcho, Mr. Toda Shonosuke of Tanimatsuya Toda Shoten, and ceramic artist Mr. Sugimoto Sadamitsu, and learned about the world of tea and pottery.
In 2004, he built a kiln in Karuizawa.
Since 2006, he has held solo exhibitions every other year (November of even-numbered years) at the Nomura Museum of Art.
In 2014, he published a collection of his own works, Shiki-yoku. Currently, his pottery is supplied to Japanese restaurants such as Kashiwaya, Kanoushoujuan, Kitcho, Komago, Suyama, Tsukumo, Tenki, Hakuun, Mizai, and Mishimatei (in alphabetical order).

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