Tajimi Ceramics Festival

There are many festivals in tajimi throughout the year from the summer fireworks quite impressive for a countryside town to a variety of local festivals many on the theme of pottery tajimi is located in the largest pottery production area in the world.

Tajimi ceramics festival. Every year during the second weekend days of april there is a ceramic festival conducted in this area. Ceramic festival at oribe street of tajimi. Address phone number ceramic park mino reviews. The whole place is devoted to shaping and firing distinctive plates bowls containers and serving ware.

A large springtime event which roughly 20 000 ceramics lovers flock to from across the country during this large event in spring the ceramics stores in tajimi line the streets with stalls and offer their superbly crafted mino yaki ceramics for equally superb prices. The clays found here are excellent for pottery making. A lot of ceramic producers are situated in the tajimi area of gifu prefecture. Ceramic park mino tajimi.

The samurai warrior shouting at the crowd in the beginning is mayor furukawa a man with a vision to bring many more. Since the first festival in 1986 the international ceramics festival mino has been held with the aim of supporting the growth of the ceramics industry and the enhancement of culture through the global exchange of ceramics design and culture with its theme of international exchange of soil and flame from you. Author s photo gifu prefecture and especially tajimi is famous for its ceramics. This place is known to be producing around half the amount of ceramic wares and tiles of entire japan.

Tajimi kilns have produced some of the finest pottery in japan for a millennium and the region is still producing half of the total output of ceramics in japan. Oribe street of tajimi city has many small and big ceramic shops and galleries. There are a lot of large and small scale ceramic producers around this area. It was my first visit to a ceramics festival being held in the hometown of mino pottery which is renowned for the green copper glazed oribe and soft white glazed shino style wares.

The vast ceramic park with its museum and exhibition spaces is the main venue for the 12th international ceramics festival 20 mino japan. Situated on the southern border of gifu and aichi prefectures the town of tajimi is best known for being the center of production for mino yaki ceramics for the past 10 centuries. The opening date for the international ceramics festival 17 mino is approaching. Narumi oribe plate by a student from tajimi technical high school.

These pieces are the unique works and are very costly. The main building of oribe street has displays of works by famous artisans of japan. This past spring i visited the annual ceramics festival in tajimi in gifu prefecture.