Word: kenzan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their trade. He had studied painting in London, gone to To kyo at 21 to teach it. "I had no idea of taking up pottery," he recalls, "but in Japan I fell in with people who had. I chased around until I got hold of this old man, Ogata Kenzan, who was sixth in succession of a great line of potters. I liked him at first go-off, and asked if I could be his student...
When the old master died, Leach became, in effect, Kenzan VII. "I exhibited a few pots with my paintings. All the pots were sold. So I said, 'What ho!' " After that he went completely to pots...