kagemasa

Updated: May 18, 2025

It may be said to have owed its artistic beginning to Kato Shirozaemon Kagemasa, who visited China at that time, and "learned the art of applying glaze to pottery biscuit, a feat not previously achieved in Japan." Another profession carried to high excellence was the sculpturing of Buddhist images.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era