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Dai Ichi Arts, Ltd

Fine art gallery presenting Modern & Contemporary Japanese ceramic art in NYC.

07/07/2025

NOTES ON BLUE | This powerful flower vessel by Shinoda Giichi—son-in-law of Living National Treasure Kondō Yūzō—features a heavily layered, deep indigo toned sometsuke (cobalt blue glaze over white porcelain). As one moves around the piece, subtle flashes of green, turquoise, and brown emerge, evoking the shifting surface of a tranquil body of water. The depth of blue is achieved through multiple applications of glaze, with cobalt and iron revealing themselves in the aftermath of firing. The dynamic, wheel thrown ribs are enhanced by the gentle lip, invoking a ripple formed when a water droplet touches the surface of a still lake, or a powerful whirlpool.

Our forthcoming show “Notes on Blue” opens July 15th. The full collection is available to preview online now.

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07/03/2025

Forthcoming exhibition | Notes on Blue 🔵

Opening July 15th. Works available to preview online now.

Pictured is a sculptural celadon dish by Sakaegi Masatoshi, from his “Surface tension” series.

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07/02/2025

“For me, whenever the glaze leads in making a vessel, form emerges from it, and color becomes the priority. Sometimes the glaze would be scratched away, revealing the brown clay beneath to create contrast. Other times, layers of glaze were applied to a single form, evoking a dreamy world. These moments happened naturally and often, and in those moments, I grasped the beginning of a new way of creating celadon.”

— So wrote the Living National Treasure Nakashima Hiroshi about how color frequently guided form in his celebrated celadon practice. A group of vessels by Nakashima will be featured in our upcoming exhibition “Notes on Blue.”

Opening July 15. Stay tuned for more!

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06/30/2025

Forthcoming exhibition | This July, we are pleased to present Notes on Blue, an exhibition exploring the soothing and diverse expressions of the color blue in Japanese ceramics.

🔵 Opening July 15—stay tuned for more!

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06/27/2025

“Examples by 36 individuals, from groundbreaking senior figures to emerging stars, positively flabbergast. This is work that must be seen to be believed.” — Chicago Tribune

Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists form Japan has landed in North Carolina, at the Ackland Art Museum! If you’re in the area, don’t miss this fabulous summer show, on view until August 31, 2025. Congratulations to all curators, galleries, dear friends, collectors, and our wonderful artists involved.

06/26/2025

Coming Soon | Takagaki Atsushi 💭

Long revered as one of the most elusive ceramic styles, celadon is notoriously difficult to perfect— its translucent blues are often dependent on control and precision of glaze layering and kiln conditions. In Takagaki Atsushi’s hands, a cool celadon glaze with Guan style craqueleur reveals unexpected depth on a geometric flower vase. The glaze allows for subtle scarlet hues to emerge from beneath, drawn from the warmth of his chosen red clay.

For his work in bringing a new contemporary style to the celadon tradition, Takagaki has received the Award of Excellence at the Asahi Ceramics Exhibition in 2005 and at the 2nd Kikuchi Biennale in 2007, among others.

“Notes on Blue: Celadon, Sometsuke, and the Art of Blue in Japanese Ceramics” opens July 15. Stay tuned for more!

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06/24/2025

Coming soon | This July, we are pleased to present Notes on Blue, an exhibition exploring the rich and varied expressions of blue in Japanese ceramics, from celadon and sometsuke, to contemporary design and sculptural forms.

Featured in the exhibition is a series of celadon vessels by the Living National Treasure Nakashima Hiroshi, who was a master of Guan (Jiaotan) celadon techniques. Pictured above is a vessel by Nakashima that endlessly rewards close looking: the coveted Guan crackle is induced by formulating the glaze to shrink more than the clay body, which causes the glaze to fracture, revealing the tones offered by a dark clay body underneath.

“Notes on Blue: Celadon, Sometsuke, and the art of blue in Japanese ceramics” opens July 15—stay tuned for more.

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06/23/2025

Exhibition preview | Under shifting light, the Living National Treasure Nakashima Hiroshi’s ceramic vessels reveal an undulating and luminous celadon landscape. His textural sensitivity, achieved through meticulous firing and glazing techniques, adds an ethereal depth to his ceramics.

A series of vessels by Nakashima Hiroshi will be on view in our upcoming exhibition, “Notes on Blue,” opening July 15th! Stay tuned for more.

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06/21/2025

Matsutani Fumio | SOU (Blue)

Our forthcoming exhibition “Notes on Blue” opens on July 15th! The exhibition explores the diverse ways in which contemporary and modern ceramic artists engage with the color blue in visually compelling and innovative ways, celebrating its beauty, material complexity, and legacy in Japanese contemporary art.

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06/19/2025

Ash, flame, and form | Bird-like Bizen vessel by Kakurezaki Ryuichi 🔥

Available now.

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06/16/2025

Notes on Blue: Celadon, sometsuke, and the art of blue in Japanese ceramics

Coming soon, opening July 15

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06/12/2025

June gallery hours | While the gallery will be closed to walk-in visitors this month, we remain available by appointment and are happy to assist with your orders.

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18 East 64th Street, Suite 1F
New York, NY
10065

Opening Hours

Monday	11am - 5pm
Tuesday	11am - 5pm
Wednesday	11am - 5pm
Thursday	11am - 5pm
Friday	11am - 5pm

Telephone

+12122301680

Website

http://www.daiichiarts.com/

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