Kyohei Fujita

Kyohei Fujita (藤田 喬平, Fujita Kyōhei, 1921 – September 18, 2004) was a Japanese glass artist. He is best known for his glass boxes with complicated surface decorations, and his work was included in the exhibit One of a Kind: The Studio Craft Movement at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, December 22, 2006 – September 3, 2007.

'Red and White Plum Blossoms', glass, silver, gold leaf and platinum leaf work by Kyohei Fujita, 1992, Metropolitan Museum of Art

References
  • Boone, Thomas, David J. Wagner, Kikuo Atarashi and Shigeki Fukunaga, Kyohei Fujita, First American Glass Exhibition, Lathrup Village, Michigan, Habatat Galleries, 1981.
  • Fujita, Kyohei, Free Blown Glassware by Kyohei Fujita, Tokyo, Takashimaya, 1992.
  • Fujita, Kyohei, Kyohei Fujita, Unikate in Glas aus Japan, Coburg, Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg, 1977.
  • Lynggaard, Finn, Kyohei Fujita, The Man and his Work, Copenhagen, Borgen København 2000.
  • Maedebach, Heino, Kyohei Fujita, Brosch, 1977.
  • Biography page of Kyohei Fujita Museum of Glass (in Japanese) He made glass in the sengoku period.


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