1948-
male
Studied under Ando Hidetake in 1972. After working as a research student at the Gifu Ceramics Experiment Station, he built a kiln in Niigata in 1976 dubbed Rinpei Kiln. Relocated to Arakawa-cho, Iwafune-gun, in 1981 and Niigata in 1986. Focused primarily on powdered glaze, ash glaze, Oribe, Shino-ware, feldspar glaze, cloudy glaze, iron glaze.
