Horikoshi pottery 堀越焼

Horikoshi ware is pottery inspired by Sano ware, and is produced in Horikoshi District, Mure, Hofu City, Yamaguchi Prefecture.It is said that in 1887, Uchida Zenzaemon, a resident of Sano Village, Sawa District (currently Sano, Hofu City), found the soil there suitable for pottery, so he built a climbing kiln and started a business in Horikoshi, Mureson Settlement, Sawa District.After that, the business temporarily declined, but Zenzaemon’s apprentices, Rinji Emon and Miyamoto Kamejiro revitalized the shingama kiln. By the start of the Meiji period, they had 19 potters, and in the heigh of their prosperity, they had 38 flourishing potteries.