The project aims to publish a book on the ceramicist Ryozo Miki, a Japanese-Swedish ceramicist born in Osaka in 1942 and active in Sweden and Denmark since 1966. Despite his half-century of activity in Scandinavia, Ryozo Miki still works in a typically Japanese style. His well-turned, resilient stoneware vessels are often adorned with quickly executed calligraphic decorations. In his sculptures and reliefs, he cultivates a somewhat lighter, sometimes humorous spirit with people, birds and fish as recurring motifs. During his years in Sweden and Denmark, Ryozo Miki has had solo exhibitions at major institutions such as the Museum of Decorative Arts in Copenhagen, the Röhsska Museum in Gothenburg and the Porcelain Museum in Gustavsberg. Yet he has remained something of a doldrums in ceramics. No book or even exhibition catalog about his work has ever been published.

It is urgent that Ryozo Miki's work be documented in book form. The book would fill a gap in the existing literature on post-war Swedish ceramics and introduce a distinctive and original artist to a wider audience. The planned book on Ryozo Miki will describe both his upbringing and education in Japan and his professional life in Sweden and Denmark. Authors Love Jönsson and Petter Eklund have both followed the artist's work for several years, and have previously, both individually and together, published several books on modern and contemporary ceramics.