Bertil Persson

Bertil Persson (; born 1940) is a Swedish Hagi ware potter based in Japan.

Biography Persson graduated from Skånska målarskolan in Malmö in 1958 and was employed by Royal Copenhagen in Denmark the same year, where he worked with painting sets of the company's Flora Danica porcelain dining set.

After a company-sponsored trip to various locales in Japan to study Japanese pottery and porcelain in 1969, Persson decided to give up porcelain painting and become a potter. After the master of one of the kilns he had visited in Hagi reluctantly agreed to accept him as an apprentice, he moved to Hagi in 1970 and underwent a 7-year apprenticeship, before eventually setting up his own kiln named Nanmyōjigama (, ) in Hagi, Yamaguchi where he also lives.

In 2002, he was awarded a "Distinguished Cultural Services Award" (, ) by Hagi city. while the Yamaguchi Shimbun remarked he has many (domestic) admirers.