Akahada ware is the pottery of Nara City and Yamatokoriyama City in Nara Prefecture, a region dotted with ceramic workshops. Although its origin is unclear, it is said that during the Momoyama period, the lord of Yamatokoriyama, Toyotomi Hidenaga, first built a workshop on Akahada Mountain in the village of Gojo.
In the later Edo period, a potter Okuda Mokuhaku painted Nara-e on akahada ware and its became very popular among tea ceremony masters.
The kiln was counted as one of the Enshu Nanagama.
Nara-e
Picture book illustrations with colored brushstrokes, themed around old stories (mainly fairy tales), Noh songs and so on, created from the Muromachi period up to the middle of the Edo period.
| Toyotomi Hidenaga Feudal lord and warlord during the the Azuchi-Momoyama period of the Sengoku period. Half-brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Played an active role in the Toyotomi administration in both military matters and domestic and foreign policy affairs, also contributing to the unification of the people. |  |
