Tokoname ware is a type of Japanese pottery, stoneware, and ceramics produced in and around the municipality of Tokoname, Aichi, in central Japan. Tokoname was the location of one of the Six Ancient K
Natural glaze ware jar, excavated at Ise, Mie, Heian period, 12th century
Coil-built stoneware with ash glaze. Kamakura period, 14th century
The Tōei kiln, largest climbing kiln (nobori-gama) in Japan
Kyūsu tea pot, Taishō era c. 1921–1925, by Yamada Jōzan I
A kyūsu is a traditional Japanese teapot mainly used for brewing green tea.
Tokoname ware
…Tangible Cultural Property by the government in Shōwa 57 (1982). It has eight firing chambers running a 17° incline and ten chimneys of varying height. Kyūsu tea pot, Taishō era c. 1921–1925, by Yamada Jōzan I See also Seto ware List of Traditional Crafts of Japan References External links Media related to…
Kyūsu pots with side handle (right) and top handle, design by Masahiro Mori
Kyūsu tea pot with side handle
Kyūsu teapot for steeped tea inscribed with a waka poem by Ōtagaki Rengetsu, stoneware with rice-straw-ash glaze, mid-19th century, late Edo period-early Meiji era
Kyūsu tea pot with sidehandle, design of landscape, underglaze blue, by Mizukoshi Yosobei in Kyoto, late Edo period or the early Meiji era, 19th century