1942-
male
Graduated from the Tokyo University of Education (today Tsukuba University) with a major in craft and industrial design, and also completed the non-degree graduate course in the same field. Studied under Miyanohara Ken and Satonaka Hideto. Set up Toyoyama Studio independently in 1965. Has been selected for and won prizes at the Japan Ceramics Design Exhibition, the Yagi Kazuo Prize Ceramics Exhibition, and French art exhibitions, and has won the Enba International Prize. Is the chairman of Baku Pottery. Has held consecutive solo exhibitions at Yokohama Takashimaya. Lecturer in the ceramics department of Tama Art University. Focuses on ceramics with a blue pattern on a white background and shadowed designs, tenmoku pottery, celadon porcelain, and others.
