Late Edo period-Meiji period
male
zuishi pottery
Born in the late Edo period in Kyoto. Son of Miyata kumakichiro (an apprentice of Wake Kitei), a potter at Gojozaka who contributed considerably to the founding of Kyoto’s blue-white ceramics industry. He learned the techniques involved with blue-white ceramics from his father and remained active working with this form under the name Furoken from the end of the Edo period into the Meiji period. In the first year of Meiji (1868), he was invited by Wakayama Zuishi-yaki to produce blue-white porcelain, where he contributed to the development of other potters. Many of the designs on the plates, bowls, sake sets, kyusu teapots and other pieces he made were inspired thematically by karamono (imported Chinese artworks) such as karako-zu (drawings of children at play) or ryu-zu (drawings of dragons).
