1868-1927
male
kyo satsuma pottery
He was the son of the sixth Sobei and inherited the family headship in 1884. He worked to expand the market for overseas exports that his father had promoted, added improvements to the Kyo-Satsuma techniques that his father had created, and was also successful in gold and silver glazing.
He exhibited his Kyo-Satsuma ware at the World’s Chicago Columbian Exposition in 1893 and his art nouveau-style works at the fifth National Industrial Fair in 1903.
He was involved in the founding of the Kyoto City Ceramics Research Institute and the Ceramics Training Centre. At the end of the Meiji period, he worked against Nagoya’s Noritake and trademarked the art nouveau-style Royal Nishiki and the ornamental-style Kinkozan, and worked to expand these works and the European and American markets.
After the passing of the seventh Sobei, Seiichiro inherited the name as the eighth successor, but because of reduced demand overseas and in Japan, the business was completely discontinued in 1930.
