1809-1882
male
banko pottery
Born in Matsusaka as the son of Masanobu VI, a wealthy merchant who worked for the Shogunate exchange business, he left Edo for Osaka from the age of 12 to study currency conversion for the family business for 6 years.
In addition to the family business, he was also interested in Japanese studies, agricultural engineering, astronomical geography, and tea cultivation and irrigation system renovations. He made efforts to advance local cultures, also receiving teachings on tea ceremony and tea wares from the tea ceremony school Urasenke’s Gengensai, founding Izawacho Banko ware.
