What is Hasamiyaki?

Hasami Yaki (scissors yaki) is a pottery made in Hasami-cho, Toho-gun, Nagasaki Prefecture. It is a traditional craft that was born in the late period of the Warring States period, but is still popular as a daily use tableware.The characteristic of Hasamiyaki is that it has beautiful white porcelain and the light yellow color of Akirasu with a sense of transparency. Among Hasami pottery, Kurawanka bowl, compla bottle, warenika tableware etc. are well known.Kurawanka was named after it was sold along with the call "Sakaikurawanka, Sakekurawanka". Compla bottles are mainly made for export. The word “Portuguese” means “broker”, and Kimura trading company used compla bottles to export sake and soy sauce. It was around the end of the end of the Edo period when sake and soy sauce were packed in compla bottles and exported from Dejima to Europe.Warenika tableware was developed as a hard-to-break food table in 1987 (Showa 62), and is said to be the root of reinforced porcelain. At first it was only elementary schools in town, but it was also shipped to schools and hospitals outside the prefecture with the spread of school lunches, and came to be used nationwide.

 

History In 

1598 (Keicho 3), it was the beginning of Hasamiyaki that Kiyoshi Omura, the master of Omura, brought back a potter in Korea, and in the following year, 1515 (Keicho 4) actually started making pottery. At that time, there were three types of firewood: Hanohara, an old dish shop, and Yamadada.Currently, Hasamiyaki is mainly dyed and celadon pieces with beautiful contrasts of white porcelain and glaze, but in the early days of building glaze, I made glazed pottery. Dyeing and Celadon became mainstream in 1602 (Keicho 7) onwards, and gradually shifted from glazed pottery to porcelain as the raw materials for porcelain were found. After that, the amount of production of porcelain increased, and in the late Edo period, it showed the growth rate of becoming the number one in Japan.Behind the production volume becoming Japan's best is the existence of "Kurawanka". Ceramics were high-class items for the general people in the Edo period, but Kura-kan was sold at a reasonable price, so it colored the dishes of many common people.

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