1936-2023
female
shigaraki pottery
Born in Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture. In 1953 he studied painting under Nakajima Kenju in Shigaraki. Later studied Ogata-Kenzan ceramics as well as blue-white ceramics under Eijiro Yoshitake in Kyoto, then worked under Misaka Kakuzo in 1963 with the aim of creating his own ceramics. Build the Shigaraki sub-ground hole kiln and the Sungoe kiln, as well as the Kochinobe kiln in Echigo. Selected for the Women’s Ceramics Exhibition, Asahi Ceramics Exhibition, others. Held solo exhibitions at Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi, Ginza Kuroda Toen, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, others. Appeared widely in print and on television.
