1890-1967
male
awata pottery
Worked at the Meigetsu kiln. Made Awata-ware with his father Kawamura Usaburo and younger brother Kawamura Kitaro. His father Usaburo was a ceramics artist at Obiyama Yohei Ceramics Co., Ltd. After polishing his ceramics skills from 1903 to 1908 as the third student of Kyoto Municipal Ceramics Testing Laboratory. He joined Kamisaka Sekka’s Katomikai Association in 1910. Later built a kiln in Awataguchi and participated in Akadosha with Kusube Yaichi. Moved to Abiko, Chiba prefecture, in 1938, and built the Meigetsu kiln in Meigetsu-dani, Kamakura, Kanagawa prefecture in 1954.
