Kaneshige Toyo
Deceased Person
1896 – 1967
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Who was Kaneshige Toyo?
Kaneshige Toyo was a potter in Imbe, Japan. He helped to establish the Japanese Folk Crafts Museum in 1955, and was deemed a living national treasure in 1956 for his work in the Bizen style ceramics. 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 teawares of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.
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