일본 하기 스사 가라쓰의 조선도공

Abstract

This study examines the Korean potters who operated in Susa, Hagi, Japan. The Korean potters here included the Suchitani family, the Sakamoto family, and the Ito family. The Suchitani family moved from Gimhae in Korea to Karatsu in Kyushu. And the Sakamoto family, which hailed from the Saka family as the descendants of Yi Gyeong, were the Korean potters who moved from Hagi and settled here at the request of the region’s lord. And the Ito family, which is described as Japanese potters who came from Bizen in Yuraisho, the country’s old records of the han (domain). Namely, its forefather is described as having moved to and settled down in Susa during the years under the first lord of Susa. The Susa-Karatsu pottery was made at the common worksite (kiln) for the two families of the Korean potters of Suchitani and Sakamoto in partnership with the Japanese potter of Saito under the general provision of the Ito family. In other words, the pottery technology in this place incorporated Gimhae, Karatsu in Kyushu, Bizen, and Hagi. Nonetheless, the kilns here shut down in droves starting in 1935, in the face of the severe depression that swept the Daisho era, with only the Suchitani family’s premises remaining now.