emuseum - Seifu Yohei III (1851-1914) was a potter active in Kyoto. In 1893, he was appointed as the first Imperial Household Artist in the field of ceramics. Born as the second son of Okada Ryohei, a painter of the Maruyama school, he was good at painting and became a disciple of Tanomura Chokunyu in Osaka. At the age of 15, he was adopted by the Seifu family, a potter in Gojozaka, Kyoto, and was apprenticed to the second generation. In 1878, when the second passed away from illness, he attacked the third. He worked on making pottery that sought the model of porcelain from the Qing Dynasty in China, and created his own glaze technique and expression. https://emuseum.nich.go.jp/detail?langId=ja&webView=&content_base_id=101...