1929 – ?
male
raku pottery
The Yoshimura family manufactured yakishime (‘high-fired and unglazed’) ware whetstones and had a residence near Matsubara on Higashioji Street. In the early-Showa period, however, first-generation Yoshimura Rakunyu moved to the present location and began making pottery.
Yoshimura Rakunyu I’s son, Toshio, studied at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramists’ Training Institute, and he later began helping his father, Jinshiro (first-generation Rakunyu), making Raku ware teaware. He then inherited the titled of Rakunyu II and began working in the Kyoto Raku Ware Association, where he became president in 1985.
His oldest son has now inherited the title of Yoshimura III.
