1928 –
male
ohi pottery
Eldest son of Choraku. Also as known as Ohi Kanbei. Graduated from the Faculty of Engineering at Kanazawa University. Studied Ohi ware Kaga Koetsu tea bowls under his father in 1948. Won the Exhibition of New Kutani Ware Works Hokkoku Newspaper Award and other awards. Selected for the Japan Traditional Craft Art Exhibition. Held private exhibitions and father and son exhibitions at the Matsuya in Ginza, the Takashimaya in Osaka, and other venues.
He is the ninth generation of the Ohi-ware Kiln and is also known as Ohi Kanbee, a major ceramic artist.
Ohi-ware is a type of pottery that is positioned as a side kiln of Raku ware.
The kiln was established in present-day Kanazawa by Ohi Chozaemon, the first generation of Ohi ware.
The most distinctive feature of Ohi pottery is its candy-colored glaze.
However, the main family line, consisting of direct descendants of Ohi Chozaemon.
However, the main family line of Ohi Chozaemon’s direct descendants was cut off by the seventh generation, Oho Michitada, at the beginning of the Meiji era (1868-1912).
After that, the children of Ohi Chozaemon’s descendants rebuilt the kiln and took the name of Ohi Chozaemon VIII.
In the Showa period (1926-1989), a direct descendant of Michitada VII rebuilt the kiln.
He, too, began to call himself the eighth generation of Ohi-yaki Honke Kiln.
The eighth generation of direct descendants is Ohi Choraku.
As a result of a court battle, Choraku was given the trade name of Ohi Chozaemon and assumed the name of Ohi Kanbee.
