Degawa Tetsurō (art historian)

Tetsurō Degawa (Japanese: 出川 哲朗) is a Japanese curator and art historian specializing in Chinese and East Asian ceramics. From 2008 until 2022, he served as the director of the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, having previously been a curator at the Ōtani Memorial Art Museum in Nishinomiya.[1]

Education and career

After studying quantum physics and mechanics, he earned a bachelor's and master's degree in Art and Fine Arts from Osaka University's School of Letters.[2] He subsequently worked as curator for the Ōtani Memorial Museum in Nishinomiya, Japan, and, in 1987, joined the Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, becoming Director in 2008.[1]

Contributions and awards

In 2011, he was awarded the 32nd Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize,[3] an award in the field of ceramics studies commemorating Koyama Fujio.

In 2017, he was instrumental in establishing a sister-museum partnership between the Museum of Oriental Ceramics in Osaka with Taiwan's National Palace Museum.[4][5] The partnership was established after an Edo-period Imari plate from the Osaka Museum of Oriental Ceramics was found broken, during a loan to the National Palace Museum’s Southern Branch in Taiwan.[6] Both museums concluded that the damage was not caused by mishandling and agreed on restoration in Taiwan using the traditional kintsugi technique.[7][8][9] Shortly after the plate was restored, then-Director Tetsurō Degawa and NPM Director Lin Jeng-yi signed a memorandum of cooperation to strengthen institutional ties.[4]

In 2025, Degawa gave a lecture on the life and work of Lucie Rie at the National Crafts Museum in Kanazawa, held in conjunction with a major retrospective of her work.[10][11] Recalling his involvement in an exhibition of Rie's work in 1989, a time when she was still rather unknown in Japan, he emphasized Rie’s role in drawing new and younger audiences to ceramics in Japan.[11]

Publications

  • Celadon of Yue Ware (1994), a museum catalogue with essays in Japanese and English.[12][13]
  • 明末清初の民窯 [Export porcelain in late Ming to early Qing], Vol. 10 in 中国の陶磁 10 [Chinese Ceramics] (1997), co-authored with Nishida Hiroko, Heibonsha Publishing.[14]
  • Hokusō Joyō seiji: Kōko hakkutsu seika ten / Northern Song Ru Ware. Recent Archaeological Findings (2009), Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka.[15] This catalogue of an exhibition held in 2009 contains an inventory of Ru ware (an extremely rare type of Chinese pottery) outside of China, which was long regarded as the most extensive inventory of Ru ware outside of China.[16][17]
  • アジア陶芸史 増補版 [Asian Ceramics from Prehistory to the Present] (2012), editor with others, Shōwadō, Kyoto pp. 356. [18][19]
  • Sailing the High Seas: A Special Exhibition of Imari Porcelain Wares (2015), co-authored with Hitoshi Kobayashi and others, National Palace Museum, Taipei.[20]
  • Porcelaine, chefs-d’œuvre de la collection Ise (2017), co-authored with Claire Déléry and others.[21][22]

References

  1. ^ a b "【プレスリリース】大阪市博物館機構 大阪市立美術館名誉館長及び大阪市博物館機構 大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館名誉館長の称号授与について – 地方独立行政法人 大阪市博物館機構" [Press Release: Award of the Title of Honorary Director of the Osaka City Museum of Fine Arts and the Osaka City Museum of Oriental Ceramics]. 地方独立行政法人 大阪市博物館機構 [Administrative Agency for Osaka City Museums] (in Japanese). 2022-03-29. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  2. ^ "Tetsuro DEGAWA (Director, Osaka Municipal Museum of Oriental Ceramics)". University of Osaka. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  3. ^ "公益信託 小山冨士夫記念賞基金・記念賞受賞者一覧表" [Public Trust Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize Fund – List of Memorial Prize Recipients]. koyama-fund.jp. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  4. ^ a b "NPM inks sister agreement with Osaka museum". Taiwan Today. 22 August 2017.
  5. ^ "故宮南院で割れた伊万里焼、修復完了 日本の伝統技法で生まれ変わる／台湾". ライブドアニュース. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  6. ^ 中央通訊社 [Central News Agency] (2017-07-19). "故宮南院向日借展瓷盤 從展架掉落毀壞" [Imari plate on loan from Japan to the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum falls from display stand and is damaged]. 中央社 CNA [Central News Agency] (in Chinese). Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  7. ^ "台湾・故宮南院：貸し出しの伊万里焼の皿１枚が破損" [Taiwan, Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum: One Imari ware plate on loan was damaged]. 毎日新聞 [Mainichi Shimbun] (in Japanese). 2017-07-19. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  8. ^ "台湾：貸し出し中に破損、伊万里焼修復" [Taiwan: Imari porcelain damaged during loan, restored]. 毎日新聞 [Mainichi Shimbun]. 2018-06-26. p. 30.
  9. ^ "日台共同で伊万里焼修復／自然破損、伝統技法で" [Japan and Taiwan jointly restore Imari ware / Naturally damaged, repaired with traditional technique]. 四国新聞社 [Shikoku Shimbun]. 2018-06-25. Retrieved 2025-09-24.
  10. ^ "ルーシー・リー展 関連トークイベント「日本におけるルーシー・リーの受容」 （イベント）" [Lucie Rie Exhibition Talk Event: "The Reception of Lucie Rie in Japan" (event)]. 国立工芸館 (National Crafts Museum) (in Japanese). 2025-09-20. Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  11. ^ a b Matsuoka, Hitoshi (21 September 2025). "【ルーシー・リー展】優美で独特 魅力たっぷり" [Lucie Rie Exhibition: Elegant, Unique, and Full of Charm]. 中日新聞 Chunichi Shimbun (newspaper) (in Japanese). Retrieved 2025-09-25.
  12. ^ Ōsaka Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan, ed. (1994). Esshūyō no seiji: Tō kara Hokusōta = Celadon of Yue ware = Celadon of Yue ware. Chūgoku tōji shirīzu. Ōsaka: Ōsaka Shiritsu Tōyō Tōji Bijutsukan. ISBN 978-4-900502-21-5.
  13. ^ "Celadon of Yue Ware". Mullen Books. Retrieved 23 September 2025.
  14. ^ 西田宏子; 出川哲朗 (1997). 明末清初の民窯 (in Japanese). 平凡社. ISBN 978-4-582-27120-1.
  15. ^ 大阪市立東洋陶磁美術館 (2009). 北宋汝窯青磁 : 考古発掘成果展. 大阪市美術振興協会.
  16. ^ "(#5) A HIGHLY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE RU GUANYAO BRUSH WASHER NORTHERN SONG DYNASTY". Sothebys.com. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  17. ^ Stroeber, Eva (2015-07-11). "Quiet Elegance: The Ru Yao Brush Washer in the Collection of the Princessehof Museum, Leeuwarden". Aziatische Kunst. 45 (1): 11. doi:10.1163/25431749-90000276. ISSN 0921-657X.
  18. ^ アジア トウゲイシ (増補版 ed.). 京都: 昭和堂. 2012. ISBN 978-4-8122-1204-2.
  19. ^ アジア陶芸史 増補版. ASIN 4812212049.
  20. ^ Museum, National Palace (2021-07-29). "Sailing the High Seas: A special Exhibition of Imari Porcelain Wares". National Palace Museum. Retrieved 2025-09-23.
  21. ^ Musée Guimet, ed. (2017). Porcelaine: chefs-d'oeuvre de la collection Ise [exposition, Paris, Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet, 21 juin-4 septembre 2017]. Paris: Lienart MNAAG, Musée national des arts asiatiques-Guimet. ISBN 978-2-35906-213-7.
  22. ^ "Porcelaine. Chefs-d'œuvre de la collection Ise". lienarteditions (in French). Retrieved 2025-09-23.
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