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Fukagawa Eizaemon Ⅷ（1832～1889）

​ Born in 1832 in Arita, Hizen. In 1868, he successfully lobbied the feudal government to allow private kilns to expand their own overseas export of ceramics, which had been monopolized by the feudal government. In 1870, he also succeeded in developing porcelain insulators.
 In 1875, he established Kōransha company with Fukami Suminosuke and others. In 1879, the organization was dismantled. In the same year, he established a new company, Kōran Gōmei Kaisha company. He continued to exhibit his wares vigorously at domestic and international expositions, and devoted himself to the development of the Arita pottery industry.

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​Tsuji Katsuzō Ⅺ（1847～1929）

​ He is the 11th generation of a kiln that has been in existence since the Edo period. During the third generation, it became a purveyor to the Imperial Household Agency. He was one of the founders of Kōransha company in 1875. His works were highly acclaimed at the Philadelphia World's Fair in 1876. In 1879, he left Kōransha company and joined the founding of the Seigetsu Company. He left the company in 1889 and established Tsuji- Gōshi Kaisha company in 1903. He also served as mayor of Arita town.

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​Seijigaisha company（1879～1905）

​ A ceramics company established in 1879 by Tsuji Katsuzō, Fukami Suminosuke, and Tezuka Kamenosuke , who left the Kōransha company. The trademark is "※ and 青". Orders for its high-quality porcelain products from the Imperial Household Ministry, various government agencies, the Imperial Family, and the nobility alone accounted for more than half of the company's sales. In the 1880s, the company produced high quality daily tableware, which was displayed at the dinner party of the Rokumeikan. In the 1890s, the company declined due to a series of departures and deaths of the main supporters of the company, and the factory collapsed and closed after a typhoon hit in 1905.

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Kanzan DenshichiⅠ（1821～1890）

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​ Born in Seto in 1821. After working at Kōto Pottery of the Hikone, he established a kiln in Kiyomizu, Kyōto during the turmoil of the end of the Edo period. He was commended by the Kyōto prefectural government as a "person of outstanding occupation," and received numerous awards at domestic and international expositions, including the Vienna World Exposition in 1873. His high-quality, colored porcelain was so highly regarded that the Ministry of the Interior ordered it.

​ The flower-painted tableware inherited from Arisugawa family is well known to the world.

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