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Aoki Tobo

Okawachiyama, Imari, Saga · Japan

Celadon pottery and studio tableware

What you’ll find

What Aoki Tobo is known for

Aoki Tobo works out of a roughly 70-year-old house in Okawachiyama once inhabited by the founder's ceramicist grandparents, in the valley historically kept as the Nabeshima domain's exclusive kiln district. The studio fires celadon glazes and keeps a small showroom open daily except Mondays, one of about thirty potteries still working the same rock-walled hollow.