This type of earthenware was commissioned by Arima Yorishige, the 11th generation feudal lord of the Kurume Domain in the late-Edo period to be fired in “Toyatei,” the villa of the feudal lord in Higashi-Nonaka. Artists from nearby kilns, such as the Akasaka ware potter Ogata Soichi and the porcelain painter Okamoto Shinkichi, mainly worked to produce works, but this kiln was abolished when the domain was abolished.
