1879-1959
male
kyo pottery
Born in Daishoji, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
Also known as Heian Hokuho. He received training in ceramic painting from Okura Seishichi at the Kutani Pottery Company, later moving to Kyoto in 1899 to study under Kitayama Sekisen.
In 1906, he was invited to teach at Hunan Ceramics School in Hunan Province, China, thereafter devoting himself to the study of Chinese ceramics.
He returned to Japan in 1909. He returned to Kyoto and created ceramics focused mainly on chinaware matcha and tea utensils.
He has displayed his work at many exhibitions, winning gold and silver awards at most of them. He became a contract artist for the Imperial Household Agency.
He was certified as a technique preservationist in 1962, but he passed in 1959. His technique was entrusted to Hokuho II.
