A pioneer in the ceramic industry during the Meiji period. He went by the name of Kasedo. He was the son of Shibata Hanamori, a retainer of the Ogi Nabeshima family in Hizen Province (Saga Prefecture), and followed his father to Arita when he was a child. In 1862, he went to China to observe the political situation there, and after returning to Japan, he became an advisor to the Saga Clan Trading Company in Osaka and began trading in Shanghai. The following year, he went to France and inspected pottery factories in various regions. After returning to Japan, he taught new techniques such as plaster model casting, saggars, and manufacturing to young people in various places at the Kangyo Dormitory in Uchiyamashita-cho (Minato-ku, Tokyo). 1876 (9th year of the same), he traveled to the World Exposition in Philadelphia, U.S.A. as a judge and learned various craft and pottery making techniques. 1878 (1st year of the same), he moved to Shin-Ogawa-cho, Ushigome with Shin Shiota and others. In 1882, he went to Ishikawa Prefecture and devoted himself to the improvement of pottery, copper, and lacquerware, founding the Ishikawa Technical High School in 1887, followed by the Toyama Technical School in 1894 and the Kagawa Technical School in 1896. In 1896, he founded the Kagawa Prefectural Technical School and became its principal. In 1898, when the Association for the Exhibition of Exhibits at the Paris Exposition was established in Arita, he was appointed chief engineer of the association and taught engineers from all over the country. He died in 1918 at the age of 75.
