Kataro Shirayamadani

[1] He was already an accomplished painter of porcelainware when he came to the United States.

He worked in Boston for the Fujiyama porcelain decorating workshop when he first met Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, the founder of Rookwood Pottery Company, in 1886.

[1] A vase he made won a Grand Prize at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.

The vase was acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 1901 and is still in its collection.

[2] He decorated table lamp bases that were combined with stained glass shades made by Tiffany Studios, and one such lamp is in the collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.