1938-
male
Third son of Kato Shizan, 13th generation potter of Jibei Seto-ware. While studying at Kansai Bijutsuin, graduated from the ceramics training school and craft mentoring institute. Began making ceramics under his father Shizan until he built a kiln at Kyoto Shugakuin in 1985. Starting in the following year, he began to hold solo exhibitions at Mumeisha (Kyoto) annually as well as at Tokyo Ikebukuro Seibu department store starting in the first year of Heisei (1989). Also opened a workshop in Ayukawa, Tsuchiyama-cho, Shiga prefecture in 1991, holding solo exhibitions at Kiyomizu-dera and Jojuin Temple every year since. Following this, he has primarily held solo exhibitions of tea-ware at Kamakura, Tokyo, Ginza and the Museum of Kyoto.
