Mino pottery

The Mino pottery was founded by Katō Yosabei, whose sons started other potteries in the vicinity, notably that under the aegis of the tea master Furuta Oribe Masashige. New kilns were also built elsewhere, and pottery, while retaining its importance in the tea ceremony, became much…

The Mino pottery was founded by Katō Yosabei, whose sons started other potteries in the vicinity, notably that under the aegis of the tea master Furuta Oribe. New kilns were also built elsewhere, and pottery, while retaining its importance in the tea ceremony, became much more…

…a white glazed pottery renamed Takatori ware (but now better known as Mino ware, for Mino province, which constituted part of what now is Gifu prefecture). In 1930 a native of Tajimi, Arakawa Toyozō, rediscovered some Mino kiln sites nearby and helped to revive the old processes. (In 1955 the…