Onta Ware Pottery Sake Jug - Caramel / 小鹿田焼 徳利 HANA KAGAMI It represents limitless imagination

It represents limitless imagination

and the unseen energies of nature

this bowl carries a sense of vitality and brightness

or any contemplative drink

and natural scenes that linger in memory

Onta Ware Pottery Sake Jug - Caramel / 小鹿田焼 徳利 HANA KAGAMI It represents limitless imaginationTo 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.