Visual Delight
Beth Williamson, Ceramic Review
December 2025
Takuro Kuwata has come a long way from the traditional ceramic training of his youth. After graduating in Ceramic Arts from Kyoto Saga Art College in 2001, he studied with master potter Susumu Zaima in 2002. Then, in 2007, he graduated from the Takimi City Pottery Design and Technical Center. Now, he works in his studio at the heart Japanese ceramics in the Mino region of Gifu Prefecture. No longer satisfied with the process of making the tea bowl, or chawan, Kuwata did not abandon his traditional training and skills but put them to new and inventive purposes.