YAGI KAZUO’S MR. SAMSA’S WALK: A TRULY SEMINAL JAPANESE CERAMIC ART OBJECT? – TAASA Review December 2019

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Tomohiro Daicho I n Japan today, Yagi Kazuo’s Mr.

Samsa’s Walk (1954) is regarded as the first seminal work of sculptural ceramics.

The work consists of a body shaped on a potter’s wheel with a number of protruding tubular parts, and its title is derived from Franz Kafka’s novella The Metamorphosis...