Mashiko – Travel

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Mino

Mino Ware: Characteristics Kizeto (Yellow Seto) This is a yellow pottery created in Mino during the Momoyama Era. Tableware such as pots and bowls, vases, incense burners and containers were created in this style with tableware being especially common. The…

Mino – History

THE BEGINNING OF MINO KILNS In Tounou, the southwestern area in Gifu Prefecture, the manufacture of pottery through kilns started from the early Kofun, or Tumulus, Era of the 7th century; such pottery was called Sue Ware, or Sue-ki, and…

Mino – Potter

Kato Takuo (born 1918) Takuo Kato, who was the eldest son in a family for the venerable Koubei Kilns, was attracted by Persian ceramics on a trip to Iran while he was a student in Finland during the postwar period.…

Tokoname

Tokoname Ware: Characteristics In the Tokoname region, approximately 900 years after the end of the Heian Era, Tokoname Ware, instead of dying out, continued to be made as everyday goods. Considered to be one of the “6 Ancient Kilns” of…

Tokoname – History

Large Tokoname urns dating back to Kyoto circa 1100 AD were discovered at several historic sites at a time when it had been thought that the techniques behind Tokoname Ware had been complete and the product route to Kyoto had…

Tokoname – Travel

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