1901-?
male
Yokoe Kazo is the grandchild of first-generation Yokoe Kajuro, the village mayor of Yasu’uchi village in Toyama Prefecture (which was located in present-day Yatsuomachi Sekido). He is also the older brother of sculptor Yokoe Kazumi.
In 1841, during the latter-Edo period, the ceramics maker Kato Tsune’emon came from Mino Province (present-day Gifu Prefecture) to Sekido and started Sekido ware. Although his pottery was closed down in 1892, it was later restarted in 1934 by Yokoe Kazo. Yokoe Kazo distinguished himself for his own colored glazes, particularly for the color variations he achieved with cinnabar glazes.
