Japanese pottery and craft regions

Mino, Gifu

Mino ware (Mino-yaki)

Everyday tableware from working factories around Tajimi, Toki, Mizunami and Kani, in the Tono district of Gifu.

Yokkaichi, Mie

Banko ware (Banko-yaki)

Heat-resistant clay cookware such as donabe, a nationally designated traditional craft since 1979. Ginpo's kiln was founded here in 1932.

Seto, Aichi

Seto ware (Seto-yaki)

A ceramics city in Aichi that gives Seto ware its name. Yakushigama makes beckoning cats here, and Ouji Kiln makes mortars.

Iga, Mie

Iga ware (Iga-yaki)

Cookware made from the area's coarse local clay, in a tradition about 1,300 years old. Nagatanien has worked in Marubashira since 1832.

Hasami, Nagasaki

Hasami ware (Hasami-yaki)

Hasami-yaki is a registered regional name for tableware from Nagasaki. Ambai ceramics, designed by Makoto Koizumi, are made at Hasami kilns.

Tsubame-Sanjo, Niigata

A metalworking area

Two neighbouring cities that form one of Japan's metalworking areas. Yoshikawa, Tiger Crown and Shimomura Kihan are based in and around it.

Yao, Osaka

Fujita Kinzoku, founded here in 1951, presses and spins JIU frying pans from sheet steel in its own factory.

Iwakura, Aichi

Home of Ishizuka Glass, the maker of Aderia glassware, whose head office and main factory are in the city.

Yachiyo, Chiba

The site of Toyo-Sasaki Glass's head office and Chiba plant. Its Yachiyo Kiln sake sets and spirit glasses use a hand-rolling method.

Yokohama, Kanagawa

Yokohama nassen dyeing

Home to nassen, a stencil-dyeing industry with about 120 years of history. Hamamonyo began here in 1948.

Obama, Fukui

Wakasa chopsticks

The centre of Wakasa chopstick making, in Fukui Prefecture.

Imabari, Ehime

Imabari towels

A towel-making area in Ehime Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku.

Kyoto

Kyoto incense

Home of Kousaido, an incense maker with 40 years of history. Its incense is made in Japan, and incense is one of Kyoto City's listed traditional industries.