1853-1909
male
kyo pottery
Eiraku Tokuzen. Eldest son of 12th generation (Wazen). Specialized in copying Ninsei’s painting as well as red painting. His painting was masculine and frank, unprecedented in the Eiraku family for generations, but not to a slipshod degree due to its use of more advanced technology. In the first year of Meiji (1868), Nishimura’s surname was abolished and replaced with Eiraku. Exhibited Eiraku-ware at the Vienna Expo in 1873 and also at the Philadelphia Expo in 1876, and won the Flower Crest Award. Also received awards for his water pitchers and incense containers at the 1878 Paris Expo and 1881 Domestic Expo. Later, while preserving tradition, worked energetically within a new era of pottery, such as serving in the Seimikyoku bureau and studying Western painting under Wagner.
