Word: kenkichi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been born in Hong Kong and urged by his father to become a banker, was named Bernard Leach. He is 90 now, and blind, but for at least 40 years Leach has been recognized as the greatest living Western potter, ranking with the Japanese masters Shoji Hamada, Kenkichi Tomimoto and Kanjiro Kawai as one of the four supreme masters of clay in modern times, East or West. All this month a retrospective exhibition, including some 200 Leach pots, has been on view at London's Victoria and Albert Museum. It spans his whole working life from that first raku...
...smog. When Mishima and his companions reached Ichigaya Hill in western Tokyo, the headquarters of Japan's Eastern Ground Self-Defense Forces, sunshine bathed the midday. Mishima had arrived on the threshold of his life's climactic act. It was the sort of act, Japanese Literary Critic Kenkichi Yamamoto wrote later, that "reached its apex in one pyrotechnic explosion beyond time and space-one flash in the darkness and nothing else...