Nakamura Kametaro 中村 亀太郎 1865-1928

Nakamura Kametaro (中村 亀太郎) is born in Daishoji in 1865. He learned from his father who had a pottery business and who had started producing Hachirode style pottery in 1868. In 1877 he succeeded in the family business. He learned painting from Takeuchi Ginshu (竹内 吟秋) and became very good at overglaze painting on blue and white porcelain (染付赤絵) at Kinrande and at very detailed motifs such as dragon, phoenix, horse. At that time he was very famous and took around 1906 the name of 1st Shuto (初代 秋塘). In 1909 he went to Washington.

In 1917 he built Shuto kiln in his own house and he did pottery as well as painting.

In 1927, as he became older he stopped pottery and became head master of the Industrial School of Kagawa Prefecture in Shikoku. From that time he started to learn Japanese painting from Yamashiro Tanaka. He died in 1928, he was 64 years old.


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Nakamura Shuto the First was born in Daishoji in 1865. At an early age, he started to learn pottery painting from Takeuchi Ginshu. Later he studied various pottery making techniques and became very good at the Hachiryo style Akae, crimson colored detailed painting. He became independent in 1917 and developed and improved base and overglaze techniques. He was awarded the Contribution to Industry Award by Ishikawa Prefecture.

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