- Yakishime Pottery Experience
You will be guided around the kiln and learn how yakishime firing is achieved — how hundreds of pieces are placed, how ash movement is controlled, and how firing takes place over several days.
After choosing your clay color — white, black, or sakura — you will create a 20 cm dinner plate and a bowl together with the artist in a pottery studio beside the kiln.
Once your pieces are shaped, the artist will produce matching works of the same form, allowing you to bring home a complete table set combining your work with the artist’s work.
Your tableware will be loaded into the kiln during the next firing and shipped once completed (3-6 months).
Designed for everyday use at home or for welcoming guests, this table set allows you to enjoy both the function and the story of the pieces.
Yakishime Table Set Experience
Where Fire Leaves Its Trace
Yakishime is a traditional wood-fired ceramic technique in which no glaze is used; instead, natural ash from the kiln settles on the clay, creating subtle textures and patterns.
You will be guided around the kiln and learn how yakishime firing is achieved — how hundreds of pieces are placed, how ash movement is controlled, and how firing takes place over several days. After choosing your clay color — white, black, or sakura — you will create a 20 cm dinner plate and a bowl together with the artist in a pottery studio beside the kiln.
Once your pieces are shaped, the artist will produce matching works of the same form, allowing you to bring home a complete table set combining your work with the artist’s work.
Your tableware will be loaded into the kiln during the next firing and shipped once completed (3-6 months).
Designed for everyday use at home or for welcoming guests, this table set allows you to enjoy both the function and the story of the pieces.
- She says
“Because each piece is finished by ash moving through the kiln, no two pieces are exactly alike.
“I hope you enjoy the subtle variations in color and the way each piece grows more beautiful with use.”
- Pottery Craftsperson
- Emu Nakai
- Born in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Emu graduated from the Traditional Arts Super College of Kyoto before completing a five-year apprenticeship in Tamba ware.
Access
30 minutes by train and 25 minutes by taxi from Kyoto Station
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The exact address will be provided when your reservation is confirmed.
Experiences
- Reserve
Yakishime Pottery Experience in Kameoka
7,000 JPY / personShape your own unglazed pottery with ceramic artist Emu Nakai at her kiln-side studio in the forests of Kameoka. Yakishime ware is fired with wood for several days, allowing flame and natural ash to create colors and markings that can never be fully repeated.
Choose your clay and make a piece by hand under the artist’s guidance; it will be fired in a future kiln firing and shipped approximately three to six months later. The listed price covers the standard amount of clay. If you would like to make a larger piece or use additional clay, please contact us in advance.
- Reserve
Yakishime Tableware Set Experience
48,000 JPY / personCreate a dinner plate and bowl beside a traditional wood-fired kiln in the forests of Kameoka, Kyoto. After learning how yakishime pottery gains its natural colors and textures from flame and ash rather than glaze, choose from white, black, or sakura clay and shape the two pieces with ceramic artist Emu Nakai.
The artist will create matching pieces in the same forms, completing a table set that brings your work and hers together. Your pieces will be fired in the next kiln firing and shipped approximately three to six months later.
