Shozo Michikawa was born in 1953 in Hokkaido, the northernmost area of Japan. After graduating from Aoyama Gakuin University in 1975, he settled in Seito in Aichi, a city with over a thousand years of history in ceramics, to focus on his craft. His works have been widely exhibited in Japan, the Philippines, Mongolia, France, the United States, and the United Kingdom.