1874-1960
male
rakuzan pottery
Around 1716, in response to the crisis of the abolition of Rakuzan- ware (around the time of the 4th generation Kada Hanroku), that was pottery in the same area where Matsudaira Fumai, the lord of the Matsue domain was, he invited a person called Sumiemon, who was a Fujina-ware potter, and centered around the rakuzan-ware kiln the search to revive it began. From then he took over from Nagaoka Sumiemon and became the 9th generation of Rakuzan-ware in a family of potters that continued to produce Oniwa-ware of the Matsue domain from generation to generation. He was also known as the 5th generation of Nagaoka Sumiemon. *Now he is generally known as the 9th generation Nagaoka Sumiemon.
The 9th Sumiemon was born during the turmoil of the early Meiji era. The kiln lost the patronage of the domain, and he inherited pottery making over the periods from Russo-Japanese War to the first Sino-Japanese War to the Pacific War and being oppressed made management difficult, but he protected the business by focusing mainly on tea bowls. He is considered to be a master craftsman of the recent past within Izumo Rakuzan-ware.
