About

Inoue Manji was born in 1929, learning to specialize in Arita ware—a
traditionally colorful pottery form. Soon, however, he began working in white
porcelain and became celebrated worldwide for the graceful medium. Hakuji
is created by pouring a transparent glaze over white clay (Kaolin) and
firing at a high temperature. Inoue demands perfection in shape and is known
to be unforgiving, rejecting even a millimeter of distortion. He states that,
“hakuji expresses itself through form rather than added decoration,” and his
pieces exemplify this truth through refined curves and purely rounded forms
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