Mino Ware 美濃焼

New In: Mino Ware from the Kilns of Gifu Prefecture

Mino ware 美濃焼 traces its ceramic history back over 1,300 years, and today the region accounts for roughly half of all tableware produced in Japan, spanning everything from traditional craft to professional restaurant and hotel ware. What defines Mino is not a single style but a culture of material depth and ongoing experimentation, built on the region's exceptionally rich geology of layered clays, feldspar, and silica that have shaped its kilns for generations.

The collection brings together pieces from Sakuzan, whose Style-E and Style-M plates carry the studio's signature Youhen glaze firing for unpredictable color depth; Shobu, a maker of professional tableware designed around the four natural elements of Earth, Water, Air, and Fire; Kanesuzu, a manufacturer founded in 1923 whose Kigoromo collection offers clean, warm ivory plates with a fine silky matte surface; and Hibino, whose Ecume plates reproduce the structure of sea foam in fine dark-outlined bubbles. Taken together, they offer a cross-section of what Mino ware looks like today: grounded in a shared tradition, but moving in distinctly different directions.

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