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Kanzan Denshichi ( 1824 -1890 )
Also as known as Kato Kanzan, he was born in Seto, Owari Region, now in the Aichi
prefecture in the late Edo period. At the end of the Edo period, he was forced out of work
from a Koto-yaki kiln run by the lord of Hikone, left for Kyoto to start his own porcelain factory
in 1862. Denshichi learned a Western enameling method on porcelain from Gottfried von
Wagner.
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