Okinawa: Master Potter Passes Down Tradition of Climbing Kiln in Yomitan Village

By Kazutaka Nakajima / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior Photographer
20:45 JST,
January 24, 2026
YOMITAN, Okinawa — Tsuboya ware, a representative form of Okinawan pottery, is said to have begun in 1682, when the administration of the Ryukyu Kingdom consolidated three kilns from Okinawa Island in the present-day Tsuboya district of Naha.
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