TAMBA STYLE

Pottery exists very imminently in our everyday life. Ascending its history, it started as containers for daily use such as tableware, and later on were symbolized as wealth and power. Nowadays pottery is going to become an exclusive step of one’s expression, exceeding a limit of daily life.

In Tachikui province, the rural home of Tamba ware, “pottery for daily life” has been producing from medieval era to the present age. It’s simply because they have continued making potteries snuggled up to life of people that a long history of 800 years they are able to hold.

This exhibition brings the original figure of Tamba ware as “pottery for daily life”, tracing a relation of Tamba ware and livings of people those days on the basis of a recent excavation and a folkloric study.

To reveal how Tamba ware has been used and changed in the ongoing history brings an opportunity to discover a new appealing of imminent pottery.

In addition to those traditional Tamba ware, this exhibition brings together master works of Ryoji Koie, who are invited from Tokoname pottery site to our museum this year as the 1st artist of “The Artists In Tamba Invitational”. Koie, whose principal is widely known as the creation with local materials in local site and publication in local exhibition, made his works with Tamba clay and its unique kiln.Koie’s production in Tamba seeks what Tamba should be along with vivid “Koie’s experimental Tamba ware” which was created after he met conservative Tamba.

The tradition of Tamba that inherits only the essence of “pottery for daily life” and the experimental challenge of Koie’s new Tamba, through these two “TAMBA STYLE”, we try to clarify “what Tamba ware really is”.

■ Admission

	Individual	Group	Evening
Adult	\900	\700	\500
Student I	\700	\500	\300	University / College / Highschool
Student II	\500	\300	\100	Junior high / Elementary

・Group: 20 or more people
・Free of charge for junior high / Elementary school students living or attending schools in Hyogo Prefecture with a Kokoron Card.
・Half price for visitors aged 65 or older living in Hyogo Prefecture. (Show identification proving your age)
・Half price for visitors with disabilities (including care workers). (Show identification notebook for the disabled)
・Evening: from 5:00 p.m.