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context: ceramics > six ancient kilns

a particularly lovely 15th C Echizen pot

Echizen

This was kind of an isolated northern coast version of Tokoname - large practical pots for ordinary people, undecorated other than by the natural ash-glaze.

backwards: tokoname

forwards: shigaraki