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圭山

Keizan / others
亰山
桂山
Kobayashi Keizan, painter, often worked for Kinkozan –
渓山
Meiji period
啓山

恵山 Others as Kobbayashi read as Keizan:
景山

Keizan – Meiji period

Keizan-Taisho period

KENZAN
乾山
/ Ogate Kenzan
尾形 乾山

Ogata Kenzan, original name Ogata Shinsei, also
called Kenzan, (born 1663, Kyōto, Japan—died June 3, 1743, Edo [now Tokyo]),
Japanese potter and painter, brother to the artist Ogata Kōrin. He signed
himself Kenzan, Shisui, Tōin, Shōkosai, Shuseidō, or Shinshō.
Kenzan received a classical Chinese and Japanese education and pursued Zen
Buddhism. At the age of 27 he began studying with the potter Ninsei and in
1699 established his own kiln in Narutaki. Encountering financial difficulties, he
moved in 1712 to Nijō, in central Kyōto, where he established another kiln. In
the 40 years of his working life, Kenzan produced quantities of pottery. His
output included raku ware (pottery covered with a lead glaze and fired at a
comparatively low temperature), tōki(“ceramics”), and jiki (“porcelain”). Ogata