Naoto Yano

Naoto Yano is currently the most notable young Karatsu potter. Born in 1976, he has created a wide variety of pottery pieces reminiscent of old Karatsu from the Momoyama period, including Korean Karatsu vases, painted and black Karatsu vases, skinned whales, Madara Karatsu sake cups, and tableware.
He learned the basics of pottery from scratch at the Arita Ceramics School, and then actively participated in the local Kokaratsu Study Group and other groups, learning from senior pottery artists and steadily building up his research. As a result, he began making pottery freely without being bound by any particular framework, and in a word, many of his works seem to be a return to his roots.
On the first day of the exhibition, many people lined up to choose Yano's works.