Koyama Fujio was born in Okayama in 1900. He worked in the Tokyo Teishitsu Museum (current Tokyo National Museum) and then joined the Intangible Culture Division of Cultural Properties Committee. He built his own kiln "Hananoki-gama" in Toki City in 1972. Koyama made great contributions to research in Ancient Pottery. He died in 1975.
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