Though it is a type of Kyo-ware, it is said this pottery still has many mysteries to this day.
First, there is one theory that in the early 1600s, a potter by the name of Manemon started to make replicas of Chinese, Goryeo, and Shigaraki on the banks of the Midoro-ga-ike Pond in Rakuhoku, Kamigamo, after which he produced thin tea implements represented by Kyo-ware. However, there is another theory that at a later time a potter who called himself Gensuke, who had been a student of Ninsei, had built a kiln there to make Ninsei-style colored pottery. To this day, they are both just matters for speculation and as such the kiln is considered to be extremely rare.
