Kasai Taizo

Biography

Taizo Kasai (1915-2007) was born in Takaoka in Toyama Prefecture, Japan, where he resided and worked throughout his life. With creativity rooted within the core of Toyama, it is Takaoka city that was the hub of innovative metal working dating back to the Edo period (1600-1868).

In 1950 Kasai was accepted into the Nitten, a collective of exhibitions that has grown into the most popular of the great art organisations in Japan at present. It was notably his 1963 and 1970 Nitten entries that won the Tokusen (Grand Prize) which led to him being commissioned to make a flower vase for the Imperial Household Agency a year later in 1971.