- Name
- Toshu Yamamoto
- Date of birth
- 1906
- Place of birth
- Bizen/Okayama/Chūgoku/Japan
- Date of death
- 1994
- Gender
- Male
- Biography
- Toshu Yamamoto was born in Inbe, Bizen City, and became a National Living Treasure in 1987. Trained under artists such as Yaichi Kasube, he was a master of the pottery wheel. Many of his masterpieces are tea and sake vessels. His delicate and refined style has been celebrated by tea ceremony masters all over, and he himself is known as “Teacup Toshu”.
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