Onta Ware Tobikanna Sake Jug - Ivory / 小鹿田焼 酒徳利 K8-930 in use making it a versatile choice

making it a versatile choice for both main and side dishes

and it's sized to accommodate longer incense sticks without any overhang

These chopsticks are made from natural Japanese wood

Her calligraphy is characterized by bold

this Mino Sometsuke side dish features intricate indigo patterns hand-painted in the traditional sometsuke (blue and white) style

Onta Ware Tobikanna Sake Jug - Ivory / 小鹿田焼 酒徳利 K8-930 in use making it a versatile choiceTo 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.