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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 were fired in underground kilns carved into mountain slopes called anagama.

Sue Ware was brought over from [...]

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. He underwent through a lot of hardship as he experienced excavations in the desert, but succeeded [...]

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