Meiji period-?
male
konko pottery
Born in Konko-cho, Asakuchi-gun, Okayama Prefecture. He traveled to Korea to so research on ceramics and returned to Japan in 1925.
He invited an engineer to build a German-style coal kiln, and made tea bowls, pots, flower vases, etc., in the style of Korean pottery, and named it Konko-yaki based on the place name it is from.
