1788–1839
male
kyo pottery
Born on 28 May as the 3rd son of the founder, Takahashi Dohachi, his brother (Nin’ami) became Takahashi Dohachi the 2nd.
He trained under his father, Dohachi, and his brother, and moved to Kiyomizu Akoya, Kyoto in the year 1817, achieving independence but did not establish his own kiln and continued making pottery exclusively at the kiln shared with his father and brother at Gojo. In the next year, 1818, he was invited by Okada Kyuta to join the Sakuraisato ware school in Osaka’s Settsu. The next year, he was influenced by Ogata Kenzan’s pottery manual and took on the family name Ogata.
In 1820, he was invited by Sawara Kiku to his Sumidagawa ware studio in Edo, and in 1827, he was invited by Nanki Otokoyama, the ceramicist patronized by the Lord of the Kishu domain, to teach them the latest Kyo ware techniques. In 1831, he helped establish Himeji’s Tozan ware, and in 1834, he was invited by the Inada clan, vassals of Awaji’s Hachisuka Clan, to help establish Awaji ware. His contributions in teaching Kyo ware to various kilns around the country left a lasting legacy in Japanese pottery from the days of the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji period.
