Inoue Motozo is a child adopted by Tonmoto Iwajirou Yamagata, as his third son.
His real name is Motosaburou.
He was born in Tokoname has Keiou 2 (1866) and died in Taishou 11 (1922).
He studied in his youth from Morishita Mokuji, first generation learners ceramics and more will also be educated by his uncle Matsumoto Sankou, 2nd generation.
It is said that his art imitates so well the Bizen styles or ancient Korea that even the best experts can not discern his original works with a single glance.
In Meiji 26 (1893) he studied the art of tea under the supervision of Shibayama Jungyou Nagoya and from this time we feel a strong influence on his work.
He studied in a room for the tea ceremony named Fushikian (literally: the hermitage of ignorance) during his apprenticeship with Shibayama, but this one, when he taught him the art of Raku-yaki, considered he had not much to transmit on ceramics and thought to give him the pseudonym Fugen (literally nothing to say / 不 言). But Motozo, everything about tea remaining the domain of ignorance (Fushiki / 不 識) finally took the pseudonym Fushiki.
He will train for 2 years in the manufacturing of Shinonome-yaki and after returning to his hometown, is used exclusively in "Miyabi". During the Taisho period (period between 1912 and 1926), it will be on the jury of exhibition fairs or deputed prefect responsible for the sale of various parts.
Yamada Jozan Motozo considered as someone rather proud.
Probably because he had a tendency to despise the other potters who spent their days in front of their towers, cloistered in Tokoname, and he thought they benefit their summers attending advantage of people in this world so vast en- itself.