Asato Ikeda was born in 1979 in Tobe Cho, Japan. In 1997 he graduated in ceramics from Arita University in Saga, Japan.
From 2006 - 2008 he was despatched as a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer by the Japanese government and taught ceramics to underprivileged children.
Since 2008 he has explored his own creative pottery process in Ryu-sen, Tobecho, exhibiting in numerous galleries in Tokyo.