1796-1877
male
hagi pottery
He was Saka Koraizaemon the eighth generation but called himself Shinbe.
With Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s dispatch to Korea, Mori Terumoto, who ruled the entire Chugoku region at that time, had brought back a potter from Korea and named him Sakata at first, but later changed his name to Saka. After Terumoto was forced to move to Hagi by the Shogunate, the potter received the name Koraizaemon from the 2nd Hagi feudal lord, Mori Tsunahiro, and the 8th generation of Saka Koraizaemon continued to use it to the present.
The 8th Koraizaemon was able to protect his family business well by working with the Miwa family at a kiln that was under the authority of the Hagi domain, and moreover, in 1826 he went to Kyoto to exhibit his pottery techniques to the Arisugawa-no-miya. However, at that time, there was not enough clay from Hagi so he made pottery with clay from Kyoto, and thus the works that remain are of Kyo-ware.
