Born in Fukuoka Prefecture, he graduated from the Bori Department of Tokyo Industrial School (now Tokyo Institute of Technology) in 1887, became principal of Tsuna County Pottery School in Hyogo Prefecture in 1897, then Seto Pottery School in Aichi Prefecture, and was invited to Chengdu Secondary Technical School in Sichuan, China in 1909. Died of illness on October 9, 1918 at the age of 49. He was a sixth-degree scholar of the Order of the Sacred Treasure. He was described as a man who was outwardly staunch and inwardly passionate, and was also an honest man. He translated Claus Kohlemann’s “Quantitative Analysis,” Langenipeck’s “The Chemistry of Pottery Manufacture,” and Jackson’s “A Translation of the Calculations of the Ceramic Industry. He also wrote “Practical Ceramics” and “The Ceramic Industry of Seto” when he was president of the Seto Ceramic School, and contributed greatly to the popularization of Japanese ceramic books. (Journal of the Ceramic Society of Japan, 316)
