Suikou Buseki

Japan Kōgei Association

Wood & Bamboo

1994
Received the Asahi Shimbun Award at the 34th East Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
1998
Received the Japan Kōgeikai Award at the 8th Traditional Wood & Bamboo Crafts Exhibition
1999
Received the NHK President’s Award at the 46th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
2000
Received the Asahi Shimbun Award at the 9th Traditional Wood & Bamboo Crafts Exhibition
2002
Received the Japan Kōgeikai Encouragement Award at the 49th Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition
2007
Received the Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education Award at the 11th Traditional Wood & Bamboo Crafts Exhibition
2012
Received the Art Fund Award at the Collect 2012 (London)
2012
Awarded twice at the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
2012
Awarded once at the Traditional Kōgei New Works Exhibition
2012
Awarded 3 times at the Wood and Bamboo Traditional Kōgei Exhibition
2024
Received the Japan Kōgeikai Members’ Award (Asuka Cruise Prize) at the 2nd Japan Kōgeikai Members’ Exhibition
2025
Received the Mitsukoshi Isetan Award at the 65th East Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition

The techniques of bambooworks include "Amimono (plaited bamboo)", which is the weaving of bamboo strips, and "Kumimono (paralell construction)", which is the assembling of bamboo strips by utilizing the lines of the strips. There are bamboo techniques I learned from my master, Shokansai Iizuka (a living national treasure).

My specialty is the technique of bundle weaving and openwork weaving. The theme of my artwork is a scene of nature.

Received the Japan Kōgeikai Members’ Award – Asuka Cruise Prize (2024)

Career

1958
Born in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo
1958
Studied under his grandfather Suishin, father Suigetsu, and later Shokansai Iizuka (an Important Intangible Cultural Property holder)
1986
Selected for the first time at the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (selected consecutively since then)
1987
Selected for the first time at the Japan Traditional Kōgei New Work Exhibition (selected consecutively since then)
1988
Selected for the first time at the Japan Traditional Kōgei Woodwork and Bamboo Work Exhibition (selected consecutively since then)
1999
Was an Appraiser at the Traditional Kōgei New Work Exhibition(in 2002 again)
2001
Was an Appraiser at the Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition(in 2004, 2008, 2015, 2020 again)
2009
Dispatched to Germany as an Agency for Cultural Exchange
2009
Member of the jury of the Western Kōgei Exhibition
2010
Solo Exhibition at Mitsukoshi main Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2012
The artworks exhibited at the Tea Ceremony Today: Uses and Forms, Kanjitsu Kikuchi Memorial Museum of Art, Tokyo
2013
Participated in Contemporary Japanese Kōgei Exhibition, Morikami Museum, Florida
2013
Artworks exhibited at the 60th Memorial Exhibition of Japanese Traditional Kōgei, "Crafts from Kōgei" (The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Kōgei Gallery)
2015
The artworks exhibited at Senshinkai, at the Japan Tea Ceremony Association Tea Ceremony Utensil Exhibition (Mitsukoshi Main Store, Nihonbashi)
2015
Participated in the Kanjitsu Kikuchi Award Kōgei of Today Exhibition (Kanjitsu Kikuchi Memorial Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo)
2016
Solo Exhibition at Mitsukoshi Main Store, Nihonbashi
2017
Japanese Bamboo Art Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2017
The artworks exhibited at the 20th Mokichi Okada Award Exhibition, MOA Museum of Art, New York
2017
Selected at the 83 Treasures of the Heisei Era (Yakushiji Temple, Nara, Japan)
2018
Participated in the exhibition "Senshinkai" at Mitsukoshi Main Store, Nihonbashi, Tokyo
2018
The artworks exhibited at Japonisme 2018 (Paris)
2019
The artworks exhibited at the 21st Mokichi Okada Award Exhibition (MOA Museum of Art)
2019
The artworks exhibited at the Bamboo Work 2019 - 26 Artists (Takashimaya Store, Nihonbashi)
2019
Was an Appraiser, East Japan Traditional Kōgei Exhibition (2023)
2020
Solo Exhibition (Mitsukoshi Main Store, Nihonbashi)
2020
Exhibition "Kōgei 2020: Nature and Beauty in Form" (Tokyo National Museum)