1872-1933
male
Watanabe Iwasuke was born into the house of a doctor who served the Owari Tokugawa family under the old feudal system, but he did not succeed his father in the family business. Instead, he aspired to do what he had always had interest in and become a potter. He learned the ceramics making craft under Kato Kakutaro of Seto, and also headed to a Mino ware kiln to further study porcelain making techniques.
In 1910, he began making Tsukimi ware at Tsukimizaka, Kakuozan in the village of Higashiyama in Aichi District, Aichi Prefecture (Higashiyama in Chikusa Ward, Nagoya).
The kiln was later closed down upon Iwasuke’s passing because he did not have a successor.
