kuniyaki　国焼
CATEGORY:　architecture / tea houses
　
Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period (1616-1868) to refer to ceramic tea caddies, *natsume 棗, fired in kilns other than in Seto 瀬戸, in Aichi prefecture, or Kyoto. Among the well known kilns that produced kuniyaki were those at Bizen 備前, Karatsu 唐津,　Satsuma 薩摩, Shigaraki 信楽, and Tamba 丹波. In recent years however, kuniyaki has become a generic term for ceramics, tea ceremony bowls and daily utensils made anywhere in Japan. This is to distinguish these from pieces made in China or Korea.
　
　

　
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