Kinjō Higashiyama ware (金城東山焼) refers to a type of Japanese pottery that was originally produced in

Nagoya is the largest city in the Chūbu region, the fourth-most populous city and third most populous urban area in Japan, with a population of 2.3million in 2020. Located on the Pacific coast in central Honshu, it is the capital and the most pop ...

, central

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. It was originally called just Higashiyama ware (東山焼) but in order to avoid confusion with other pottery of the same name and ''

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'' spelling the name ''Kinjō'' ("Golden Castle", another name for

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) is added before. The climbing kiln was built for the 12th lord of the

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(1810–1845), who had a keen interest in pottery, at his lower residence

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(葵御下屋敷) in

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. It was a type of ''oniwa-yaki'' (御庭焼 literally "garden ware"). The opening of the kiln is thought to have been around 1843, the year of Naritaka's long stay in Nagoya. It is said that Katō Tosaburō (加藤唐三郎), an

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potter, was involved in the construction of the kiln, but there are very few artefacts that have been handed down to the present, and many things remain unknown.

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* https://www.tokugawa-art-museum.jp/exhibits/planned/items/201809owarihantei.pdf Culture in Nagoya History of Nagoya Japanese pottery Nagoya Castle {{japan-art-stub

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