Narushima pottery 成島焼

It is said that Narushima ware originated 230 years ago, in 1781, when Lord Uesugi Harunori, restorer of the Yonezawa Domain, established a kiln in Narushima, Yonezawa City, Yamagata Prefecture, and had Sagara Seizaemon Atsutada produce pottery there as part of promoting new industries to financially sustain the domain.After that, they were overwhelmed by Seto pottery at the end of the Meiji period, so they temporarily closed. However, because it had been said for a long time that there was good-quality potter’s clay in Imaizumiyama, Wakui Toshizo trained at Hirashimizu ware in 1937 in Imaizumi, Nagai City, Yamagata Prefecture. He