1899-2000
male
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1921.
Since then, he has produced works as a printmaker, and in 1931, exhibited his works at the Japan Print Roadshow organized by the Ministry of Education, and displayed his works at such art museums as the Louvre, and those in Madrid, London, and New York.
He is also known as a collector of Nanban-ware, and in 1938 he exhibited 100 collections at the Kyoto National Museum, which caught the eye of Yanagi Soetsu, who was promoting folk art, and led to Hamada Shoji and others to visit Okinawa.
After returning from the United States in 1972, he was involved in pottery firing and opened a kiln in Chibana, Okinawa City, making Nanban-ware using original modeling and humorous motifs. Then, he made presentations at solo exhibitions in various places including Takashimaya in Nihonbashi. In 1987, seeing an annular solar eclipse, which is one of the celestial phenomena, inspired him to create a new series that visualized that annular solar eclipse and the dragon of the former Shuri Castle, and in 1988, he presented a tea bowl with a dragon crest to the Crown Prince and Princess.
