焔Maison Homura
The third entrance

By region

The same collection, arranged by where each thing was made.

Okinawa — not to scale北海道・東北The North関東Around Edo中部・北陸The Middle and the Snow Coast関西The Old Capitals中国・四国The Inland Sea九州・沖縄The Southern Islands
Map of Japan, six regions. Choose one.

The North

Hokkaidō · Tōhoku

Long winters, and a craft tradition built on what you do indoors from November to April.

6 in the collection

Around Edo

Kantō

A million people in one city by 1720, and every one of them a customer.

7 in the collection

The Middle and the Snow Coast

Chūbu · Hokuriku

One lord with more rice than anyone but the shogun, and four hundred years of paying craftsmen with it.

9 in the collection

The Old Capitals

Kansai

A thousand years of court taste, and the workshops that had to satisfy it.

5 in the collection

The Inland Sea

Chūgoku · Shikoku

Two kilns here refuse to use glaze at all, and have refused for eight hundred years.

2 in the collection

The Southern Islands

Kyūshū · Okinawa

The first porcelain in Japan was fired here, because the potters were brought here by force.

4 in the collection