Born in 1980. The 16th-generation head of Asahiyaki, one of the Enshu Shichigama (Seven Kilns of Enshu) with approximately 400 years of history in Uji, Kyoto. After graduating from Doshisha University, he studied wheel-throwing at the Kyoto Prefectural Ceramics Training School and apprenticed under his father. Following a residency at the Leach Pottery in St Ives, England, he succeeded to the name Hosai XVI in 2016. Drawing on the aesthetic of "kirei-sabi" cultivated by master tea practitioner Kobori Enshu, he works primarily with traditional kashige and beni-kashige wares, as well as the gesshihaku-nagashi (moon-white glaze) chawan he himself developed.