Collection: Okinawa Yachimun Pottery: Tsuboya-yaki
Based in Yomitan Village (Yachimun-no-sato) is the home of Okinawa's iconic Yachimun Pottery.
A traditional village surrounded by tropical forests, potters create their iconc works, fired in traditional, wood-burning Noborigama Climbing Kilns.
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Kitagama: Yachimun Tea Cups by Masamori Yonahara
Regular price £30.00 GBPRegular price -
Yachimun: Tsuboya Tea Cup by Toshiyuki Kinjo
Regular price £48.00 GBPRegular price -
Kitagama: Yachimun Arabesque Tea Cups by Masamori Yonahara
Regular price £42.00 GBPRegular price -
Kitagama: Yachimun Cobalt Tea Cups by Masamori Yonahara
Regular price £55.00 GBPRegular price -
Kitagama: Yachimun Teapot by Yoneji Matsuda
Regular price £95.00 GBPRegular price -
Sold outYukutayagama: Small Yunomi Ame
Regular price £38.00 GBPRegular price£45.00 GBPSale price £38.00 GBPSold out -
Sold outYukutayagama: Large Yunomi Ashi
Regular price £40.00 GBPRegular price£48.00 GBPSale price £40.00 GBPSold out
Okinawan Yachimun Pottery
The traditional pottery of Okinawa "Yachimun" means ceramics in Okinawan dialect.
This style of ceramic was developed under the influence of Chinese, Korean & Southeast Asian pottery as the Ryukyu Kingdom traded heavily with it's neighbouring countries.
The foundations of today’s yachimun yaki laid by Korean artisans based in the Satsuma domain (present-day Kagoshima Prefecture) who came to Okinawa in the early seventeenth century.
The main climbing kiln in Yomitan is known as Yomitanzan-yaki and is shared by many potters. They light the kiln a few times a year and fire their works as a group.
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Pieces stacked in the climbing kiln
