1959-
male
Kawachi, Yahatahigashi Ward, Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. The workshop of “Yuko Kiln” is located in the mountains of Kitakyushu City, Fukuoka Prefecture. After graduating from university, Abe Masashi, now the second generation, studied under Takita Koichi in Fukushima and Tochigi, and returned to Kitakyushu at the age of 26 to study under his father, Abe Yuko, who established the kiln. After that, he took over the kiln, and he has been making pottery by switching from ceramics to porcelain, focusing on porcelain after participating in the restoration project of celadon bowls with flower patterns excavated from the Kooro ruins in Fukuoka City and learning the charms of Ko-Imari. He has switched from ceramics to porcelain, and mainly produces white porcelain in the style of Yi Dynasty and Ko-Imari, as well as color painting and ruri-glazed porcelain.
