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Nonomura Ninsei (野々村仁清)
Ninsei NONOMURA (野々村仁清: date of birth and date of death are unknown) is a potter in the early Edo Period. His popular name is Seiemon.
He is a distinguished craftsman of Kyo yaki (Kyoto style ceramic art) earthenware with multicolored overgraze enamels.
He was born at Nonomura Village, Kuwata-gun, Tanba Province (present, Miyama-cho Tawn (former Onomura Village), Nantan City, Kyoto Prefecture).
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It is said that when he was young, he got his training in pottery at Awataguchi and Seto, and later he returned to Kyoto and built his own kiln in front of the OmuroNinna-ji Temple.
Before the Middle Ages, potters were nothing but nameless artisans, however, he placed a seal of his name 'Ninsei' to his works to announce that they were his own works.
In that context, it can be said that Ninsei was the first potter who had a sense of being a 'creator' or 'artist' according to the modern meaning. It is said that Ninsei was especially good at managing a potter's whee