1845-1912
male
Matsumura Kyusuke was interested in pottery since he was young, and purchased a large amount of Western cobalt when Nagasaki started importing Western paints, selling the pigment in the Seto area for painting on Gosu ware from 1876. Kyusuke also started selling pottery, encouraging pottery craftsmen in Seto and Tajimi to use Western cobalt, and opened a shop in Yokohama to start exporting pottery abroad. He also founded “Kaiyo Company” in Nagoya, opening shops abroad, but dissolved the company in 1885 due to disagreements in business approaches. He then opened the independent Matsumura Shoten, and joined Tashiro Shoten in Yokohama to refine the quality of porcelain, while also creating manufacturing factories and branches in Kobe. Kyusuke was succeeded by his adopted son, Matsumura Hachijiro.
