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Mitsuo Shoji speaks of a child-like fascination with fire, and like many ceramic artists, is intrigued by the serendipitous action of the kiln, its alchemical transformative power.   A childhood fascination with drawing suggested an artistic bent, but Mitsuo enrolled in the ceramics department of the prestigious Kyoto University of Art and Music because it had the least number of students. Under the guidance of luminaries Yagi Kazuo (1918-1979), founder of the Sodeisha Movement and regarded as the pioneer...more