Onta Ware Tobikanna Small Bowl - 12 cm - A / 小鹿田焼 小鉢 T792-3012-CAU ■ Size: 9 cm height

■ Size: 9 cm height  5 cm

The design vividly pictures the buttons and pockets of denim pants

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The arrow is given at Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples as a Japanese New Year's lucky charm or sacred tool

The result is a craft unlike any other — a union of opposites

Onta Ware Tobikanna Small Bowl - 12 cm - A / 小鹿田焼 小鉢 T792-3012-CAU ■ Size: 9 cm heightTo 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.