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Shigaraki ware
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pottery production
- In pottery: Kamakura and Muromachi periods (1192–1573)
…20th century; Tamba (Kyōto prefecture); Shigaraki (Shiga prefecture); and Echizen (Fukui prefecture). The wares of Seto, especially those made for Buddhist ceremonies, were regarded as the finest pottery of this period.
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Shigaraki
- In Shigaraki
…one of the six major pottery centres of ancient Japan, located in southern Shiga ken (prefecture), east of Kyōto and southeast of Nara. The wares for which the town is known were first produced in 1278; they have a crude shape and an oatmeal-like surface covered with various glazes. Water…
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