
Sadamasa Imai
Sadamasa Imai is a renowned ceramic artist.
In 2024, Imai’s Napoleon Fish was acquired by the Minneapolis Institute of Art in the U.S.
Imai’s work, Coelacanth, is also in the collection of the Ibaraki Ceramic Art Museum.
He has been featured frequently in newspapers and art-related magazines.
Sadamasa Imai, “Napoleon Fish” and “Fugu”.
Napoleon Fish, 2023, Ceramic
H44cm × W26cm × D97cm (H17.3 × W10.2 × D38.2 inches)
Crab, 2024, Ceramic
H9cm × W35cm × D14cm (H3.5 × W13.8 × D5.5 inches)
Millefiori Octopus, 2024, Ceramic
H15cm × W32cm × D36cm (H5.9 × W12.6 × D14.2 inches)
Imai believes “Ceramic art has a long history of more than 7,000 years and various techniques have been created. If you master the techniques of ceramics, which have been created over a long period of time, you can make anything. Ceramics enables shapes to shrink and change with the flame of the kiln and is suitable for making natural objects. I would like to express the “character” of the motifs of my works while working well with the physiological phenomena of ceramics."
Crab Herd, 2024, Ceramic
H45.4cm × W39cm × D37.5cm (H17.9 × W15.4 × D14.8 inches)
Left: Blue and Yellow Macaw, 2023, Ceramic
W26cm×D28cm×H76cm (W10.2×D11×H30 inches)
Right: Blue and Yellow Macaw, 2022, Ceramic
W23.8cm×D23.4cm×H73.8cm (W9.4×D9.2×H29 inches)
2023, Ceramic
Crab Pattern Plate, Snapper Chopstick Holder, Tiger Rhyton, Crab, Scale Cup
Left: Blue Crab, 2024, Ceramic
H27.5cm × W16cm × D19cm (H10.8 × W6.3 × D7.5 inches)
Right: Blue Crab, 2023, Ceramic
H20cm × W18cm × D18cm (H7.9 × W7.1 × D7.1 inches)
Tasmanian giant crab, 2018, Ceramic
W51cm×D43cm×H27cm (W20×D17×H2.4 inches)
Coelacanth, 2023, Ceramic
W88cm×D25cm×H37cm (W34.6×D9.8×H14.6 inches)