Six Ancient Kilns
The Six Ancient Kilns is a category developed by Koyama Fujio in the post-war period to describe the most important ceramic kilns of traditional Japanese pottery, in emulation of the Five Great Kilns of Song China. In the Japanese cases a traditional regional style of pottery, produced at numerous actual kiln sites, is meant. Unlike the Chinese "kilns", the Japanese styles continue to be produced to the present day.
The six kilns are:
- Bizen ware, produced in Bizen, Okayama
- Echizen ware, produced in Echizen, Odacho and Miyazaki, Fukui Prefecture
- Seto ware, produced in Seto, Aichi Prefecture
- Shigaraki ware, produced in Kōka, Shiga, east of Lake Biwa
- Tamba ware, also known as Tachikui ware, produced in Sasayama and Tachikui in Hyōgo
- Tokoname ware, produced in Tokoname, Aichi Prefecture