is an avant-garde ceramic artist group formed in Kyoto in Japan in November 1947 that was active until 1956.
The founding members are Sango Uno, Uichi Shimizu,Uichi Shimizu, included List of Living National Treasures of Japan (crafts) at Potter Yasuo Hayashi, and Yasuyuki Suzuki. 四耕会 京都をとりまく一断面 戦前・戦中・戦後 前衛陶芸集団：四耕会誕生前夜～前衛陶芸発生の頃 四耕会創立メンバー林康夫の回顧を中心に 坂上しのぶ（ギャラリー16）(Original : Japanese Text)
Founding and philosophy
In 1947, Shikokai was established on November 17, the members were Sango Uno, Juro Izukura, Kinnosuke Onishi, Yasuyuki Suzuki, Saku Fujita, Shu Arai, Uichi Shimizu, Shigeru Asami, Ryozo Taniguchi, Morikazu Kimura, and Yasuo Hayashi. No Sound C, Hayashi Yasuo, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Yasuo Hayashi said in his oral history study published 2019 in New York, that, "In 1947, at the age of 19, he joined the multidisciplinary avant-garde group Shikokai (Society of Four Harvests), led by the much older painter Uno Sango (1902–1988), who acted as a mentor to Hayashi and the rest of the group’s young members. Shikokai was the first strictly avant-garde group formed in postwar Kyoto."S.U.N.Y. FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY'IN PURSUIT OF THE FOURTH DIMENSION: HAYASHI YASUO’S PRESENCE IN ART HISTORY AND THE ART MARKET' p.26 MINA T. BRENNEMAN NEW YORK, NEW YORK DECEMBER 2019
In 1948, March 9 to 13, the 1st Shikokai Exhibition was held at Asahi Gallery in Kyoto.
In 1956, March 8 to 14, they continued their activities until the 8th Shikokai Tokyo Exhibition was held at Ohara Hall in Tokyo. The members at the final exhibition are Sango Uno, Juro Izukura, and Yasuo Hayashi. Ichizo Numata, Suroku Okamoto, Hitoshi Kato, Saku Fujita, and Tamio Hibari.
Sango Uno, who was a leader, participated in the launch of the Japan Kogei Association from abstract to traditional movement, which was a major factor in the end of this Japanese early avant-garde ceramic art group.Swan, Marilyn Rose, "HAYASHI YASUO AND YAGI KAZUO IN POSTWAR JAPANESE CERAMICS: THE EFFECTS OF INTRAMURAL POLITICS AND RIVALRY FOR RANK ON A CERAMIC ARTIST’S CAREER" (2017). Theses and Dissertations--Art and Visual Studies. 15.
See also Yagi Kazuo Sōdeisha
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