Kato Kagemasa 加藤景正 – Dictionary of Japanese Potters

1168-1249maleseto pottery Toshiro, the founder of Seto-wareKato Shirozaemon Kagemasa (commonly known as Toshiro) is essential to the story of Seto-ware. According to Fujishiro’s biography, which describes the life of Kato Shirozaemon Kagemasa, Toshiro followed Dogen Zenji, the founder of the Soto school of Zen Buddhism that founded Eiheiji Temple, to China in the second year of Joh’o 2 (1223), and returned to Japan after learning the technique of pottery. After that, he traveled around Japan in search of suitable soil for making pottery and in 1242, he found good soil in the Sobokai region of Seto and opened a kiln

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