https://baekpasun.com/en/News and records from a gallery in Arita in memory of Baekpasunen https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-10baekpasun-en-record-1Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0900To mark 60 years of diplomatic relations between Japan and Korea we held the Korea-Japan Baekpasun International Exchange Exhibition, bringing Baekpasun, a potter of Joseon Korea, together with the work of artists of today. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-10baekpasun-en-news-1Thu, 09 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0900The Korea-Japan Baekpasun International Exchange Exhibition “Baekpasun the Potter Meets the Present” was held https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-10-01baekpasun-en-news-2Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0900Mayor Hong Tae-yong of Gimhae and his delegation visited the gallery https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-10-01baekpasun-en-record-2Wed, 01 Oct 2025 09:00:00 +0900Mayor Hong Tae-yong of Gimhae, said to be Baekpasun’s hometown, visited the gallery with his delegation. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-07baekpasun-en-news-3Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0900President Kim Gi-hwan of the Korea Foundation and his delegation visited the gallery https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2025-07baekpasun-en-record-3Tue, 01 Jul 2025 09:00:00 +0900President Kim Gi-hwan of the Korea Foundation visited the gallery with his delegation. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2020-02baekpasun-en-record-4Thu, 06 Feb 2020 09:00:00 +0900Jang Gi-deok, third generation of the Cheongbong Kiln in Miryang, Korea, carries on the techniques of onggi and buncheong ware and makes mainly tea utensils for Korea and Japan. This was the first showing of Miryang ware in Arita. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2019-11-20baekpasun-en-record-5Wed, 20 Nov 2019 09:00:00 +0900Works shaped by the fine, supple sensibility and individual techniques of women artists, shown and sold. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2019-10-19baekpasun-en-record-6Sat, 19 Oct 2019 09:00:00 +0900Tapestries and placemats in hand-painted dyeing, plant dyeing and cross-stitch: work in cloth in which the cultures and makers of Japan and Korea come together. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2019-03-10baekpasun-en-record-7Sun, 10 Mar 2019 09:00:00 +0900For the third anniversary of the opening we held a memorial lecture on 10 March, the day of Baekpasun’s death. Lee Bong-su, a Baekpasun researcher from Gimhae, spoke on “The source of ceramics: Baekpasun’s home village of Daegam and its times”, followed by a performance on the Korean gayageum and th https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2019-03-06baekpasun-en-record-8Wed, 06 Mar 2019 09:00:00 +0900Ahead of the memorial lecture, Consul General Son Jong-sik of the Korean Consulate General in Fukuoka visited the gallery and paid his respects at the statue of Baekpasun. He then went on to Hōonji Temple, where her stone memorial stands, and offered incense in the rain. He is reported to have said https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2018-10-26baekpasun-en-record-9Fri, 26 Oct 2018 09:00:00 +0900We took part in the Gimhae Buncheong Ceramic Festival. At the Baekpasun booth the gallery’s artists showed and sold their work, and two traditional craftsmen of Arita ware demonstrated painting. The director gave a lecture on Baekpasun. Under clear autumn skies, dancers in their twenties to their ei https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2018-04-29baekpasun-en-record-10Sun, 29 Apr 2018 09:00:00 +0900On the first day of the Arita Ceramics Fair, as the opening event, the memorial statue of Baekpasun was unveiled in front of the gallery by women artists active in Japan and Korea. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2017-11-22baekpasun-en-record-11Wed, 22 Nov 2017 09:00:00 +0900Works shaped by the fine, supple sensibility and individual techniques of women artists, shown and sold. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2017-04-29baekpasun-en-record-12Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0900To mark the start of cultural exchange with Gimhae, said to be Baekpasun’s hometown, we held an exhibition of members of the Gimhae Ceramic Artists Association during the Arita Ceramics Fair. Members of the association were invited to the opening on the first day, and in fine weather the local plate https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2016-11-19baekpasun-en-record-13Sat, 19 Nov 2016 09:00:00 +0900Works shaped by the fine, supple sensibility and individual techniques of women artists, shown and sold. https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2016-10-02baekpasun-en-record-14Sun, 02 Oct 2016 09:00:00 +0900The mayor of Gimhae, Korea, the place most widely held to be Baekpasun’s hometown, visited the gallery with his delegation. Her descendants Fukami Masaru of the 14th generation and Fukami Yasushi of the 15th also came, and the whole gallery staff received them. After greetings and photographs a welc https://baekpasun.com/en/records.html#r2016-02-11baekpasun-en-record-15Thu, 11 Feb 2016 09:00:00 +0900In weather hard to believe for February, many guests came to the opening. After the director’s greeting and the artists’ greetings came the ribbon cutting and a commemorative tree planting. In the afternoon Nakazato Norimoto gave the opening lecture, “Baekpasun and the women who sustained pottery ma