1868-1926
male
raku pottery
From Ako, Hyogo. Joined the Fukuchi family as an adopted child and started creating Raku ware in Yokkaichi, Mie in 1917.
Contributed when transferring the tea room (Hanshoan) in Nagoya of the Takakura Hisada family from Kyoto to the tea room (Jirakuan) in Tokyo of Kume Nobushige, President of Tokyo Gas. Also started a gas kiln in Tokyo at the time.
Known as the first person to create ceramics in a gas kiln in Japan.
