Taeko Kajihara

1967 Born in Kyoto

1990 Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts

1995 Established own business in Karatsu City, Saga Prefecture

2001 Second Prize, Kyushu-Yamaguchi Ceramics Exhibition

She does not use a potter's wheel to make pottery, and her representative works are "kouchi," a type of pottery in which decorative clay is beaten onto the surface of the piece.

Her motto is "pottery that can be loved in daily life".