Kenya Miura

A potter from Edo in the late Edo period to the Meiji era. His childhood name was Totaro. He learned pottery from his uncle Ida Kichiroku, who was the first to receive the honor of "sekiyaki" in front of the shogun. He was also taught the pottery techniques of Ogata Kenzan by Nishimura Myakuan, and took the name of the 6th Kenzan and the name Tenrokudo. He also learned painting from Tani Buncho and lacquer-e from Kanjiro, and devised a decorative method of inlaying pottery into lacquerware following the legacy of Ogawa Haritsu. In addition to this elaborate hakasa craft, he was skilled in a wide range of works, including elegant painted pottery modeled after Kenzan, sculpture, and accessories (Kai Yadama). In 1875 (Meiji 8), he moved from Fukagawa to Chomyoji Temple in Mukojima, where he spent his later years, but he also built kilns in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, and Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, and opened a shipyard in Shiogama, Miyagi Prefecture, and was the first person to fire glass in Tokyo, making him a talented man of the Westernization period. One of his representative works is the "Goose Plaque" (Tokyo National Museum).

[Yoshiaki Yabe]

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江戸末期から明治の江戸の陶工。幼名は藤太郎。初めて将軍上覧の「席焼」の栄誉を受けた伯父の井田吉六(きちろく)に陶法を学び、また、西村藐庵(みゃくあん)から尾形乾山(けんざん)の陶技を伝授されて自ら6世乾山を名のり、天禄堂(てんろくどう)を号した。さらに絵を谷文晁(ぶんちょう)、蒔絵(まきえ)を寛次郎に学び、小川破笠(はりつ)の遺法に従って漆器へ陶器を嵌入(かんにゅう)する加飾法を考案した。この精巧な破笠細工のほか、乾山を手本とした雅趣に富む絵付陶をはじめ、彫塑、装身具（乾也珠(だま)）など広い作域をこなした。1875年（明治8）深川から向島(むこうじま)長命寺へ移り晩年を送ったが、ほかにも神奈川県小田原(おだわら)、埼玉県飯能(はんのう)に窯(かま)を築いており、また宮城県塩竈(しおがま)に造船所をおこし、東京で初めてガラスを焼くなど、文明開化期の才人でもあった。代表作に『鵞鳥(がちょう)図額』（東京国立博物館）がある。

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