Onta Ware Tobikanna Ivory Bowl - 12 cm - C / 小鹿田焼 深皿 福籠（梟）敷台付き earthy glazes

earthy glazes

Each piece was chosen directly from the village

each piece is a masterpiece

This purple Edo Kiriko single-stem vase is designed to depict the sight of bountiful crops swaying in the wind

where fifteen stones arranged in raked gravel have been interpreted and reinterpreted for five centuries

Onta Ware Tobikanna Ivory Bowl - 12 cm - C / 小鹿田焼 深皿 福籠（梟）敷台付き earthy glazesTo reach the village of Onta ware, you travel into the mountains of Hita, Oita Prefecture. Before seeing the kilns, you hear them. The soft, rhythmic sound of karausu traditional water powered wooden mills echoes through the valley as they slowly crush the local clay. It is a sound that seems to belong to the landscape itself, and a sign that you have arrived in Sarayama, the small pottery village where Onta ware has been made for around 300 years.