Makoto Hatori

Makoto Hatori is an internationally recognized Japanese contemporary ceramic artist. His work with ceramics is innovative as he combines the ancient ceramic heritage of Japan with modern technology. While Japanese ceramic art is frequently rooted in tradition, Hatori's goal is to challenge these tr…

Makoto Hatori was born in Japan in 1947. Hatori apprenticed under a master of traditional Japanese ceramics in 1968 and 1974. Following the completion of his bachelor’s degree in sculpture at the Nihon University College of Art in 1972, he went on to research clay and glazes at the Gifu Prefectural…

Makoto Hatori apprenticed under a master potter of traditional ceramics in 1968 and 1974 to learn Japanese ceramics (in which design without human intervention and supreme artificial beauty co-exist) as well as the mechanism of natural glaze (what he calls “non- glaze,” or beauty by nature’s design)…