WARES OF KAGA
maita, in the district of Hanasaka, Among the decorators who had worked in the former factory and whose services were retained by Hashimoto, was an artist of Kyōtō, named Yujiro, whose success in using enamels after the Imari style obtained for him the sobriquet of Akae-Yujiro (aka-e signifies painting with coloured enamels). In 1838, owing to conflagration, the factory was removed to Tsuchi-yama, in the same district. Seven years previously (1830), another factory had been established in the neighbourhood (at Ono-mura), by a farmer called Yabu Rokuemon, who engaged two of Teikichi's former pupils, Chōsuke and Gihei, to carry on the potter's work, and Kutani Shozo, Saida Dokan, and Kitaichya Heikichi as decorators. They used materials found at Gokokuji, at Nabedani, and at Sano, all in the immediate vicinity. Rokuemon conducted this enterprise until 1850, when he transferred the factory to one Zendayu, who managed the sale of its productions until 1860.
In 1824 Yujiro (mentioned above) had among his pupils two artisans, Ishida Heikichi and Kawashiri Shichibei, who are credited with having transmitted and improved his methods. A few years later (1830) two other potters attract attention. These are Matsumoto Kikusaburo and Awaya Genemon. The former appears to have undergone a very extensive training, having been the pupil successively of Saida Isaburo (otherwise called Dōkai), a potter of Sano (in the Nōmi district); of Kozaka Shirobei, an expert of Yoshikawa (in the same province); of Jōzan, director of the Sanda factory (in Sesshū); and of Shūhei, a well-known Kyōtō potter. Returning to Kaga from his last apprenticeship in Kyōtō, he settled at Komatsu, and there worked for many years, in part-
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