Born in 1984, he lives and works in Japan.
The idyllic kiln site of Koishiwara in Fukuoka Prefecture in Kyushu is known throughout Japan as a centre of Mingei pottery. Yet from this traditional local comes great innovation in the work of the young Kanjiro Moriyama, a ceramic artist who embraces the clay of his hometown yet with a penchant for the sculptural, invoking the abstract forms of his idols Shigekazu Nagae and the stoneware curves of Ken Mihara. Captivating the Japanese ceramic scene in 2007 by being the youngest Grand Prix winner of the prestigious Asahi Ceramic Exhibition at the age of 23, and winning a slew of awards since, Collect 2014 marked the international debut of one of Yufuku's youngest ceramic artists.

Moriyama captivated the jurors of the Asahi Ceramic Exhibition by demonstrating that the potter's wheel could be an effective and creative tool for abstraction within ceramic art. By throwing large, cylindrical pots and cutting them while still wet, Moriyama has devised a method of attaching separately thrown pots to form an intriguing, unique whole. What is important to note, however, is that his forms are impossible to form by hand-building, and his curving silhouettes can only be realised by the wheel. After cutting and glazing, the work is bisque-fired, and then fired at a temperature of 1250 degrees Celsius within a gas kiln.