The North
Hokkaidō · TōhokuLong winters, and a craft tradition built on what you do indoors from November to April.
6 in the collection
Around Edo
KantōA million people in one city by 1720, and every one of them a customer.
8 in the collection
The Middle and the Snow Coast
Chūbu · HokurikuOne lord with more rice than anyone but the shogun, and four hundred years of paying craftsmen with it.
10 in the collection
The Old Capitals
KansaiA thousand years of court taste, and the workshops that had to satisfy it.
6 in the collection
The Inland Sea
Chūgoku · ShikokuTwo kilns here refuse to use glaze at all, and have refused for eight hundred years.
2 in the collection
The Southern Islands
Kyūshū · OkinawaThe first porcelain in Japan was fired here, because the potters were brought here by force.
4 in the collection