Otani ware is pottery made in Otani District, Naruto City, Tokushima Prefecture. In 1780, in the late Edo period, pottery artisan, Buneimon, who came from the Bungo Province (Oita Prefecture) on a pilgrimage to the 88 Temples of Shikoku, made pottery with Kanigaya’s red clay here in Otani Village. It is said that this was the start of Otani ware.
Long ago, there was a time when they were known for using a method called lying-down potter’s wheel to make large pottery to ferment Awa indigo dyes in.
