About Hannya Kankei

Hannya Kankei is a regular member of the Japan Kogei Association. Born in Takaoka, he is the fourth generation of Hannya family foundry, manufacturing high-quality copperware since 1870. He studied metal casting under the Living National Treasure Katori Masahiko (1899-1988) and joined the family workshop in 1950. He started to exhibit his work from 1969 at the Japan Traditional Crafts exhibition where we won the first prize in 1973 and was afterwards awarded multiple times. In 2001 and 2005, at the request of the Imperial Household Agency, he made replicas of some ancient metalworks from the Shosoin, the treasure house of the Todai-ji Temple in Nara.