1796-1871
male
awaji pottery
While engaging in his original business of brewing soy sauce, he devoted himself to tea ceremonies and incense-burning ceremonies and began making hand-molded earthenware.
In Tenpo 3 (1832), after traveling to Kyoto to study ceramic art techniques seriously under Ogata Shuhei, he invited Shuhei to Awaji Island and began creating Awaji ware (Minpei ware) by incorporating the polychrome pottery techniques and designs of Kyo ware.
Around the late Tenpo era, he was invited by the Tokushima Domain in Awa Province to create earthenware. Since then, he created a wide variety of copies of earthenware styles, including Kyo ware, Chinese pottery, Cochin ware, polychrome pottery, and sancai ware.
He fell ill around Bunkyu 2 (1862) and passed down his family business to his nephew Sanpei before retiring.
