1807-1882
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Yokohagi Ikko was from Etchu Province (present-day Toyama Prefecture). From around 1830 to 1844, he received an invitation from the daimyo of the Toyama Domain, Maeda Toshiyasu, to work as a Karatsu ware maker. During this time, he received the artist name “Ikko”. Afterward, around 1862, he would receive a similar request from Maeda Nariyasu, the daimyo of the neighboring Kaga Domain, and he would begin making Karatsu ware as an official ceramics maker for the clan. In 1858, he also helped assist porcelain manufacturing of Hanyu ware and Chikutei ware.
Yokohagi Ikko made porcelain in Kyoto for a time when the clans’ kilns were closed down at the end of the feudal era, but he returned to Kanazawa to make Uguisudani ware upon entering the Meiji era.
