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At twenty-six he entered the Iwata Glass Co. and resigned two years later to establish a career as an independent artist.
BiographyKyohei Fujita () graduated from the Tokyo Academy of Arts, Department of Metal Crafts at twenty-six he entered the Iwata Glass....
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Kyohei Fujita was one of Japan’s leading glass artists, who was well-known for creating glasswork that resembled traditional Japanese lacquered boxes.
His mottled and gilt decoration was intricate and beautiful, and his work is celebrated to this day, with his work gaining an international reputation and his small intricate boxes selling for thousands of dollars.
Fujita was born in Okubo-cho, Toyotama-gun, Tokyo (now Hyakunin-cho, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo) in 1921 and he first apprenticed under a metalworker before eventually moving into glass and studying at the Tokyo School of Fine Arts.
Fujita began to experiment with combining traditional Japanese designs with modern glassmaking techniques and he created his own field of glassmaking designing decorative boxes that mixed colored glass and gold leaf.
Fujita’s technique involved layering two colors of molten glass over a punti (a gathered glob of molten glass) before encasing them in