These days in Japan no single ceramic artist working exclusively in white porcelain-hakuji is as celebrated as Maeta Akihiro; a list of his awards include 1991 won Mainichi Award at the 11th Japan Ceramic Art Exhibition/1993 won the Tomimoto Prize at the 48th New Meister Art Craft Exhibition, Japan/ 1994 won the Kaneshige Toyo Prize at the 37th Japanese Crafts Association Chugoku Exhibition, Japan/1997 won the Superior Prize at the 10th MOA Exhibition patronized by MOA Museum of Art, Japan/ 1998 won the 4th Energia Fine Arts Prize, Japan/ 1999 Received the Tottori City Culture Award, Japan/ 2000 won the Asahi Shimbun Prize at the 47th Traditional Crafts Exhibition, Japan/ 2003 won the 20th Anniversary Grand Prize of Tanabe Art Museum in the field of "Formative Arts for Tea Ceremony," Japan, won the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Retrospective Prize at the Japan Traditional Art Crafts Exhibition, won the Bronze Prize at the 2nd World Ceramic Biennale 2003 Korea International Competition, Icheon, Korea/ 2004 won the Japan Ceramic Society Award for 2003, won the 61st Chugoku Bunka Prize sponsored by the Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima, Japan 2005/ won the 60th Anniversary Grand Prize of the New Meister Art Craft Exhibition, Japan; anyway, you get the point--2010 Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art Two-Person Exhibition-- his list of other exhibitions is too long to go into here after the above! In 2013 he was designated a Living National Treasure for hakuji. Inoue Manji 井上萬二 (1929-) is also a LNT for hakuji. Maeta's website is: http://yanasegama.com/index.html