加藤釥

Kato Sho

1927–2001 · Seto, Aichi

Seto ceramicist from a long-established potting family, known for vessels combining iron glazes with gold.

Kato Sho (1927–2001) was a ceramicist working in Seto, Aichi Prefecture, born into a family of potters that traces its craft back many generations. He built on inherited Seto techniques while developing a distinctive use of gold over glaze. His works are recorded in public collections including the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, the Seto City Art Museum, the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, and the museum of the Tokyo Institute of Technology (now Institute of Science Tokyo), whose holdings listed on the Agency for Cultural Affairs' Bunka Isan Online include flower vessels such as an iron-glazed vase with gold decoration. Cornell University's Johnson Museum also holds a gourd-form vessel by him dated about 2000.