Japanese teaware names/stamps?

[mbishop]

Is there a list or chart or something that has Japanese teaware artist's "names" (usually the name is not their actual name).

The Tokoname page for Bonsai pots has a nice list here: http://www.tokoname.or.jp/bonsai/catalog/maker-e.htm

Is there anything like this for teaware? Should someone make one?

[JBaymore]

There is a book only in Japanese language....and it is very expensive and I think out of print.

Contact Robert Fornell for info on this one.

best,

...............john

[davidv7]

On Robert Yellin site You can find some markings for Bizen, Karatsu and Seto: http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/bizen-markings.html
I think the subject is endless ...

[Chip]

And a single artisan can have multiple stamps usually designating different things.

[Robert Fornell]

There is a book, 現代陶芸家作家事典, Gendai Tougeika Sakka Jiten, or Dictionary of Contemporary Ceramic Artists, which is sort of the who's who of potters now working in Japan. It provides brief bios oneach artist as well as how they sign their work be it signed or stamped.
ISBN4-7694-0078-0 in Japanese only.

Chip has it right regarding chops/signing. In Japan it is traditional for the kiln, meaning the apprentices/shokunin who do the production work to have a kiln chop, while the master has his own as well as handsigning. Similarily, I have one chop for straight production pots, another for more one offs as well as some teaware ie. Ido style bowls and mizusashi, and I sign Mino style bowls, sake cups and chaire. Other potters handle things differently however so your milage may vary......

Best,
R

[JBaymore]

There is a book, 現代陶芸家作家事典, Gendai Tougeika Sakka Jiten, or Dictionary of Contemporary Ceramic Artists, which is sort of the who's who of potters now working in Japan. It provides brief bios oneach artist as well as how they sign their work be it signed or stamped. ISBN4-7694-0078-0 in Japanese only.

Thanks Robert... that is the one I was thinking about when I mentioned your name above.

best,

.............john