Takahashi Kōzo 高橋光三 (*1954)

Takahashi Kōzo was born in 1954 as the son of Takahashi Rakusai IV (*1925) and is the current heir of this multi-generational Japanese ceramic tradition. He became the 5th generation Rakusai in 2010. Born in Shigaraki, he graduated from the Shigrakai Pottery Ceramic Research Institute in 1975. He founded a group of potters under the tutelage of the Living National Treasure Arakawa Toyozō (1894-1985). With his first solo exhibition at the Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka in 1984, he began a long list of national and international exhibitions. Recently, the Asian Art Department of the Denver Art Museum and the Consulate General of Japan in Denver hosted Takahashi Rakusai V and his daughter Yoshiko for the Curator's Circle Lecture "Passing the Flame: The Takahashi Rakusai Lineage in Shigaraki Ceramics.

The chaire is signed "Mitsu" 三 on the bottom and comes with a matching double-chambered wooden box inscribed, signed and sealed by the artist, which also contains two silk bags (shifuku).

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