1910-1973
male
He moved to Tokyo in 1928 and studied painting and sculpting under Shimizu Takashi. He enrolled in the Tokyo Academy of Fine Arts to study sculpting, and began to submit his sculptures to the Kokuten Exhibition while he was still a student.
After graduating he won award after award at the Ministry of Education Fine Art, Imperial Academy of Fine Art, Chubu Sculptors Association, and the Japan Export Crafts Exhibitions, and also worked as a technical instructor at the Ministry of Commerce and Industry Ceramics Research Center.
After the war he left his job and devoted himself to ceramics, mainly submitting his work to the Contemporary Japan Ceramic Arts and Japan Fine Arts Exhibitions. He won the Asahi Newspaper Prize at the former in 1952, and highest honors and the Hokuto Award at the latter in 1954 and 1955 respectively. He also won silver at the International Exhibition of Ceramics held at Prague, Czech Republic.
His work displayed his mastery in carving techniques that combined sculpting and molding.
