1902-1985
Born into a family of wholesalers of Seto pottery, he started to become independent early on, and opened Sanshuya Shintoku store in Ebisu, Tokyo. During that time, he visited various kilns to do research on manufacturing methods, and in 1932 he returned to his hometown and leased a kiln that had become abandoned, and started producing works by himself as the Sanshu kiln.
However, after World War II and its influence, he stopped producing work and started up work in precision machinery, and after entrusting that work to his son in 1970, he started making pots again. In his later years, he put his efforts into instructing future generations who were aspiring to become tree pot artists.
In addition to replicating the style of Chinese pots such as Kinyo glaze and Cochin-ware, he also produces Japanese-style pots in a wide range of areas, in which he had deepened his own research at domestic kilns.
