He won the Grand Prix at the 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne in Paris.
After the war he was appointed professor of the Ceramics department at Tokyo University of the Arts.
In 1966, he became the president of the Japan Crafts Association and also became an expert committee member on the Council for Protection of Cultural Properties.
He received a commission to decorate the Take-no-ma audience room of the new Tokyo Imperial Palace.
His large, lidded vase in green brocade “Midoriji kinrande kazari tsubo” (緑地金襴手飾壺) is 1.53m in height.