Shibui is a gallery specialising in modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics, featuring award winning artists.

the gallery emphasis being modern and contemporary Japanese ceramics selected for their Shibui feeling of quite and unassuming.

included is a Mingei section of modern and antique crafts from Japan and south east asia which share the Shibui sentiment.

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The ceramic collection at Shibui

The modern artist-potters of the early 20th century including Bernard Leach, Hamada Shoji, Kawai Kanjiro, and others are represented in Shibui with the contemporary artists from the 1960’s onwards including Kazurezuki Ryuchi, Wada Morihiro, Sueharu Fukami and many others with Living National Treasure status or equivalent …. refer to our Artists section