1897-1984
male
Graduated from the Kyoto Municipal Ceramics Experimental Station.
Born to a family owning a ceramics export company in the Meiji era, he was familiar with pottery since he was a child.
In 1924, he exhibited and won awards at the Paris World’s Fair. He also won awards at the Paris World’s Fair in 1936.
In Japan, when the Technology Department was newly established in the Imperial Exhibition in 1927, he repeatedly held exhibitions and won the exhibition special selection award in 1932. Beyond submitting his works to the Japan Fine Arts Exhibition (Nitten) after the war, he created Yoyosha in 1932 and the Seitokai and Hakuhokai collectives in 1953 as an effort to guide younger generations.
In 1954, he received the Japan Art Academy Prize for his work “Keisatsu”, exhibited at the previous year’s Nitten exhibition, and in 1960 he became a member of the Japan Art Academy.
