(from

Okayama, Japan is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the n ...

1896–1967) was a

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in Imbe,

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. He helped to establish the

Japan Kōgei Association The Japan Kōgei Association (日本工芸会) is a non-profit association dedicated to the protection and development of intangible cultural heritage, traditional Japanese crafts and supporting artisans such as Living National Treasures. The or ...

in 1955,A prize honoring Kaneshige’s contribution has been offered annually by the Chugoku branch, then East Chugoku branch, of the Japan Kōgei Association since 1968. It awards craftspeople of lacquerware, wood craft, weaving and dyeing, and pottery other than Bizen-yaki. Cited from “Yakimono Bizen” (1990-05) Yagyu, Takashi, Sanyo Shimbunsha, Nakamura, Akio (photographs). . and was deemed a living national treasure in 1956 for his work in the Bizen style

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. He was a member of what is known as the "Momoyama revival movement" of the 1930s and is credited with having rediscovered the techniques used to produce the ''wabi''

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s of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.

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* http://www.e-yakimono.net/html/momoyama-revival-jt.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Kaneshige Toyo Japanese potters People from Okayama Prefecture 1967 deaths 1896 births Living National Treasures of Japan 20th-century ceramists 19th-century Japanese people 20th-century Japanese people