1837 – 1915
male
mino porcelain
Kato Gosuke was born the first son of Kato Kaemon, who served at Kyoto’s Murakumo-gosho temple making blue and white ceramics.
From the end of the Tokugawa shogunate to the early-Meiji era, he worked as a high-level artisan at Nishimura Enji III’s studio in Tajimi. Afterward, he went independent and worked under the name Seto Engosuke, using the skills he had learned to create products aimed overseas.
He is well known as a quintessential Mino ware potter of the Meiji era, and was selected for a prize at the 1878 Exposition Universelle in Paris.
