Customize your gift set:  You can now mix-and-match your own handmade pottery set to make it super special. Koishiwara Pottery is known to represent the "beauty of everyday things", and you can create your own beautiful hand-made pottery set. 
 
Choose any one of our popular coffee mug:
Acorn Donguri 
Pink Kinoko Mushroom
Beige Kinoko Mushroom 
Black Kinoko Mushroom
 
And pair it with any one style of the small plates:
Kinoko Mushroom
Kinoha Leaf
Donguri Acorn
 
The works of Yamamaru are inspired by the beautiful nature in the mountain.  Every morning the Kajiwara walked into the cedar forest (literally 500 feet away from their kiln) for morning fresh air and to absorb everything nature offers.  Feeling inspired, they start their day at the kiln, hand-throwing pottery, making all sorts of nature-inspired pottery just as how their ancesters did 400 years ago.  
 
In this historic pottery town, the clay and glaze are all proudly hand-processed using only local natural minerals and burnt straw from the mountains and the rice field.  As nature sings in harmony, please help yourself and pair your favorite cup and plate.  And enjoy the "functional beauty" of Koishiwara-ware, as named by the founding father of Japanese Mingei craft, Soetsu Yanagi. 
 
As things are all handmade, each one is different.  No commerically packaged goods can compare to this unique gift set. 
 
ABOUT KOISHIWARA-WARE
Koishiwara-ware takes pride in carrying over 300 years of pottery history, making "mingei" humble utilitarian works, using only locally harvested raw material.  Up in the remote mountain,  potters escavate rocks and minerals to process their own clay and glazes.  Everything is hand-thrown and handbuilt.  And many use their beautiful surrounding as their inspiration.    Their work was praised by Masters Yanagi Muneyoshi and Bernard Leach during the Mingei Movement in the early 1900s as "Functional Beauty".   Read the stories about Koishiwara-ware and Yamamaru Kiln. 
 
HAND MADE, HAND-THROWN in JAPAN