Background
Sato Ihe was born on 1762 in Aizu, Fukushima, Japan.
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Sato Ihe
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Ihe was a seventh generation descendant of Jihe, who was made the Aiza Clan's tile maker (1655). After his mother died when he was a child, he became a Buddhist priest at the Saikoji Temple.
Career
He experimented in making white porcelain together with his elder brother with his lord's permission and then made colored porcelain.
He went to Osaka (1797) with the intention of learning Hizen (Saga Prefecture) porcelain. He then went to Saga and there became a servant at the Kodenji Temple and secretly observed pottery kilns in the area. Returned to his province (1798) with pottery he had bought in Nagasaki.
In 1800, he built a Hizen-style kiln and succeeded in producing white porcelain with newly found materials.
