1923-?
Born in Kyoto, Japan. In 1934, he moved to Kaga with his family and established his own business as Furoshi (tea stove maker). In order to inherit his father’s business, he studied the basics at the Ishikawa Prefecture Craft Guidance Center, the Ceramic Testing Center of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, and the Prefectural Industrial School, and later graduated from the first class of the Ceramics Department of Kanazawa Art College (Cashzawa Art College). In 1960, after the death of his father, he assumed the name of Sogen and has been devoted to tea ceremony pottery, preserving the traditional skills of a skilled of Furoshi.
He specializes in making furnaces, ash tray and fire tray for tea ceremony at the Unka ware Kashu kiln.
