Collection: Artist Category > The "HA" column (Shoji Hamada, etc.) > Yoshimichi Fujimoto

Yoshimichi Fujimoto
Born in 1919. Died in 1992. Born in Tokyo. Graduated from the Department of Design, Crafts, Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
He studied under Tomimoto Kenkichi and Kato Hashimoto at the Ministry of Education's Crafts Technology Training Institute. After the war, he participated in the Shinsho Bijutsu Kogei Kai, Sodeisha, and the Modern Art Association. From the late 1950s, he began producing Akae ware again.
He joined the association after first exhibiting at the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition in 1964. In 1970, he became a professor at Tokyo University of the Arts. In 1986, he became the university's president.
In 1986, he was recognized as a holder of the Important Intangible Cultural Property (Living National Treasure) for "colored porcelain."