Tsujimura Shirô is an anomaly among Japanese potters; he is self-taught. His résumé reads like that of many other successful Japanese potters in terms of exhibitions at department stores and art galleries, but the usual training with his father, as a pupil of some older potter, or in the ceramics department of an art college is lacking. Tsujimura was born in Nara, near a farm his father owned. Aft