1809–1885
male
kaseyama pottery
otokoyama pottery
In the beginning, during the Bunsei era (1818–30), he went all over Japan touring various kilns to hone his pottery skills, and established his own kiln in 1839 at Tenma, Osaka. In 1847, he was invited by the head of the Ichijo clan to teach the Kaseyama ware technique, and in 1870 he was invited to teach the Otokoyama ware technique. In the latter years of his life in 1878, he established a kiln on the Kiyomizu hills, and his pottery style was subsequently inherited by the 2nd–5th generation (Ogawa Kinji).
His particularly excellent wares are dyed porcelain, true to the Kaseyama and Otokoyama ware tradition.
