Popular Designers

Certain names are associated with and have great impact on Japanese furniture. These people made Japanese furniture more beautiful and interesting.

Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1798-1861), was one of the last great masters of the Japanese woodblock print.

Click link below to view some of Utagawa Kuniyoshi’s works:

 http://search.famsf.org:8080/search.shtml?keywords=Kuniyoshi+Utagawa

Yoshitoshi (1839-1892) was the last great master and one of the great innovative and creative geniuses of the Japanese woodblock print.

Here is a partial set of thumbnails of one of his greatest works,  "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon" series:

http://ana-3.lcs.mit.edu/~jnc/img/100moon/100moon0_50.jpg

Shoji Hamada was ceramicist working in the 1920s and 1930s and co-founded the St Ives Pottery in Cornwall with British potter Bernard Leach

To see some of Shoji Hamada’s work, click on the link below:

http://www2002.stoke.gov.uk/museums/

Tadao Ando is a contemporary architect who lives and works in Osaka, Japan. In 1995, he was named the eighteenth Laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize

Some of Tadao Ando’s work can be seen from:

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/ando/andopg.htm