-1884
seto pottery
Descendant of Kato Kihei, an associate of the Seto-ware potter Kato Motomura in the Onin period (1467-68), Kato Shunka is said to have been active in the late Edo and early Meiji periods, he was known at the time as a good worker. He was adept at painting with his fingernails, and left quite a few of these paintings when he died in 1884. His third son Tokusaburo Masanobu succeeded him as the second Shunka, but and in 1935. His first signature uses an oval mark and the second uses a frameless mark.
