It originated around the Tenpo era (1830-1844) at the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, when Tsuji Sobei of Nagoya, under the name of Niko, built a kiln in the garden of the Ryotei Suisetsuro, and made mainly tea bowls modeled on Raku-ware.
In the early Meiji era, it was inherited by his child, Shojiro Tsuji, as Yosamu-ware.
