Zeze-yaki Museum

This is the Zeze-yaki Museum.
Zeze ware is the pottery of one of Kobori Enshu’s seven kilns, and was produced and used mainly for tea utensils such as tea containers and jugs. As it appears on the records of the Kanei (kan-ei) era in the early 17th century, it is believed that they started as purveyors of the feudal lord of Zeze domain. Zeze ware is broadly a general term for the pottery fired within the Zeze domain, and it includes Oe ware, Kokubu ware and Seta ware.
The Zeze-yaki Museum was established in 1987 with the collectibles of the Iwasaki family, the current Zeze ware potters.
The exhibits include old Zeze tea containers, jars and bowls in the Edo Period [between the 17th and 19th centuries] as main items, and also old pottery fired in kilns in Omi and paintings by Yamamoto Shunkyo, a Zeze native Japanese-style painter are displayed.