Potter and businessman; president of the Hyakugo Bank. Born in Osaka, his given name was Kyudayu Masanori Kawakita. He used the names Handeishi, Deibutsudo, Mucha Hoshi, Konno Uraji, Kihan and Bakaya Rojin. The sixteenth head of the Kawakita family, landowners of Mie Prefecture, he was active as a businessman while showing from his youth a strong interest in calligraphy, painting, haiku and tea — a man of many arts and many pleasures. In 1912 he built a raku kiln at his house in Tsu, and in his later years moved the kiln to Hironaga in the same city and worked to bring on his pupils. He still draws many admirers, and is spoken of as “Rosanjin in the east, Handeishi in the west” and as “the Koetsu of the Showa era”; his work is valued far beyond the amateur. His writings include “Odemmacho”, “Deibutsudo Kairoku” and “Kenzan-ko”.