Echizenyaki

越前焼き

Background

One of the six old kilns or traditional pottery schools of Japan.
Echizenyaki is known for high fired (1300°C) unglazed natural stoneware finishes (yakishime) and firewood ash glaze.
Ash used in the firing adheres to the clay body and turns into a glaze-like decoration.
Known for large vases and jars.
Echizenyaki was influenced by Tokonameyaki from the mid-Heian period.
Echizen has produced pottery since the Kamakura period; a 600 year history of pottery making.
Traditional Echizenyaki is predominantly brown, dark green and blue-green.
A revival occured in the mid-Edo period.
Echizen pottery village was built in Miyazaki in Showa 45 (1970) and the number of working large scale kilns around the pottery village has increased to over 200.