Fukami was, in 1999, one of two Japanese ceramic artists nominated as members of the ‘World’s Ten Best’, in Faenza, Italy. He exclusively makes porcelain with celadon-type glaze; often vertical blades on a massive scale up to two metres high. His potent blend of aesthetic and technical sophistication for his sculptural works is paralleled by elegant wheel-thrown vessels he makes as part of an established pottery making family in Kyoto. His sculptural works are slip-cast in limited editions and painstakingly scraped once dry. Firing is carried out in an electric kiln which has propane gas introduced during the last period of the firing.