1864-1950
male
tokoname pottery
Matsumoto Shigenobu was a Tokoname potter and the third son of the 33nd generation Matsumoto Shigetoshi. The Matsumoto family gained its fortune in the cargo boat industry. Shigetoshi, the father, was the first in the family line to begin the pottery making business in Maruyama, Tokoname, and Shigenobu the son inherited the pottery business from his father. He was talented in pottery sculpture from a young age, and in the early days of Tokoname pottery, he created many pieces which were exported to the United States. He created not only pots and vessels but sculptural ornaments of figures and animals. Late in his life, he took on the artist name Maruyama Do and worked as a central figure in the world of Tokoname tea bowls.
