1778-1864
male
horaku pottery
A ceramist working for the Owari clan. Worked primarily with Nagoya horaku-ware. Son of Toyohachi. Made ceramics at Kakuri in the south of Maezu Banshoji. Appointed as master potter for the Owari clan in Tenpo 13 (1843) for whom he produced Raku-ware bowls from earthenware furnaces. Later received the silver seal of horaku from the domain lord Tokugawa Naritaka and was sent the two characters of “horaku” by Urasenke Gensai. From Toyosuke the 5th his surname changed from Kato to Daiki and then to horaku the 8th.
