Suzuki Osamu (1926－2001) is one of the most representative potters of post-war Japan, establishing the avant-garde ceramist group "Sodeisha" in 1948, together with other like minded artists Yagi Kazuo and Yamada Hikaru, in order to develop a new sculptural expression through ceramics.  It was their visions that have set the course for ceramic non-functional forms as seen in contemporary ceramics today.

Suzuki has won many awards including prizes at the Japan Ceramic Society, Tokyo in1960 and the Golden prize at the International Pottery Exhibition, Prague in 1961. Having achieved international success Suzuki became assistant professor of ceramics at the Osaka University of Arts in 1968 and in 1970 won the Golden prize at La Biennale Internationale de Céramique Contemporaine, Vallauris, France before receiving the Minister for Trade prize at the International Pottery Exhibition, Faenza the year after. 

In 2013 the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto held a retrospective exhibition entitled Suzuki Osamu: Image in Clay, portraying Suzuki's evolution and philosophy: from 'Pottery for Use' into 'Pottery for Viewing' and eventually into 'Poetry Ceramics’.

His works can be seen in the Metropolitan Museum NYC, the V&A Museum London and at Newcastle Museum NSW, Australia which houses a large collection of Sodeisha works.