YAGI Akira

Akira Yagi is the third generation of a distinguished ceramics family known for both discipline and avant-garde innovation. Trained at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics Institute, he apprenticed under his father, the celebrated avant-garde sculptor Yagi Kazuo, yet charted his own path in porcelain.

Yagi is acclaimed for his meticulously crafted series – nesting bowls, graduated boxes, and fluted vessels – that explore the relationship between form, space, and rhythm. His refined command of seihakuji and black iron glazes demonstrates a level of technical and artistic mastery rarely matched, while his intimately scaled porcelain works transcend function through their pursuit of flawless form, thoughtfully engaging both the vessel itself and the surrounding negative space.

Currently on the faculty of Kyoto University of Art and Design, Akira Yagi is regarded as one of Japan’s most influential ceramic artists, continually elevating the boundaries of form and beauty.