Onta Ware Hakeme Large Plate - 27 cm - B / 小鹿田焼 大皿 K8-587 - in use During our visit to their

During our visit to their workshop in Kyoto this summer

Hand-painted with elegant white cranes in graceful flight

condiments

meaning “steamed in a tea bowl

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Onta Ware Hakeme Large Plate - 27 cm - B / 小鹿田焼 大皿 K8-587 - in use During our visit to theirTo 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.