Kizo Ueno - Agano Kizo

Japanese: 上野喜蔵 - あがの・きぞう

Year of birth: Year of birth and death unknown. A potter from the Azuchi-Momoyama period and the early Edo period. One theory is that he was from Sacheon, South Gyeongsang Province, Korea, but this is unclear. He came to Japan around 1598 (Keicho 3) following Kato Kiyomasa of Higo (Kumamoto Prefecture), and initially lived in Karatsu, but it is also said that when Hosokawa Tadatoshi entered Kokura Castle in 1597, he was invited to join in making pottery. The details of this period are based on historical documents from the late Edo period, such as "Honcho Toki Kosho" and "Kogei Kagami," so the veracity of the information cannot be confirmed, but it is said that he was treated as a samurai with a stipend of five people. When Tadatoshi was transferred to Higo in 1632 (Kan'ei 9), Kizo moved to Yatsushiro and established Yatsushiro ware. However, even today, the Ueno kiln in Akaike Town, Tagawa County, Fukuoka Prefecture, worships Kizo as its founder. <References> Takeshi Nagatake, "Ueno and Takatori" ("Ceramics Series," Volume 15)

(Yoshiaki Yabe)

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生年：生没年不詳
安土桃山・江戸初期の陶工。一説に朝鮮,慶尚南道泗川の出身と伝えるが,明らかではない。慶長3(1598)年ごろに肥後(熊本県)の加藤清正に従って日本に渡来し,はじめ唐津に住したが,7年細川忠利が小倉に入城した折,招かれて製陶に従ったともいう。この間の経緯は江戸後期の史料『本朝陶器考証』『工芸鏡』などによっているため,真偽のほどはたしかめられないが,5人扶持の士分格の待遇を受けていたという。寛永9(1632)年忠利が肥後に転封されると,喜蔵は八代に移り,八代焼を興した。しかし,現在でも福岡県田川郡赤池町にある上野窯では喜蔵を始祖として信仰している。<参考文献>永竹威「上野・高取」(『陶磁大系』15巻)

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