Itaya Hazan

In 1889, he entered the Tokyo Art School, where he studied sculpture under Kōun Takamura and Tenshin Okakura.

In 1903, he moved to Tokyo to the Tabata Artists and Writers Village and started to work under the name Hazan.

Hazan was one of the first artists who integrated them with the European (most notably the Art Nouveau) style, thus creating modern Japanese ceramics.

Hazan's early work featured relief carved decoration and paid attention to light.

[1] In 1954, Hazan became the first potter to be awarded the Order of Culture (Bunka Kunsho), the top merit for an artist in Japan.