藤原雄

Fujiwara Yu

1932–2001 · Honami, Bizen, Okayama

Bizen potter, son of Fujiwara Kei, designated a Living National Treasure for Bizen ware in 1996.

Fujiwara Yu was born in 1932 in Honami, in present-day Bizen, Okayama, the son of the Bizen potter Fujiwara Kei. He graduated in Japanese literature from Meiji University in 1955 and joined a Tokyo publisher, but returned home that year to care for his father and began learning Bizen ware under him. He was first accepted at the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition in 1958 and became independent in 1967. He exhibited abroad from 1964 and taught as a visiting professor at Dartmouth College in 1965. In 1996 he was designated a Living National Treasure, following his father. He died in 2001.