1875-1922
male
awata ware
A potter working in Kyoto with Awata-ware, he enjoyed painting from an early age. However, instead of becoming a painter, he set up a shop and painted ceramics factory in front of Ryo-onji Temple in the blacksmith’s town of Awata to deal in the sales and export of Awata-ware, later expanding to establish a branch in Kobe Sannomiya Matsuya. At the time, it was common practice to divide the manufacture and painting of Awata-ware into different streams of labor and so Fuzan’s practice involved purchasing base materials from Ogawa Toyoyama and Matano Shozan, painting them in-house and selling them. The painting Kyoto Satsuma used vivid colors to produce graceful images such as peacock peacocks, phoenixes, and warriors that are very popular in the West.
