Onta Ware Hakeme Dark Gray Round Tea Cup - Wave / 小鹿田焼 湯呑み k8-1296/k7-1307 a traditional gesture meant to

a traditional gesture meant to invite people in

manganese-bearing overglaze pigment

its beauty completed through the act of tea itself

with rabbits leaping under the moonlight in vivid indigo

Onta Ware Hakeme Dark Gray Round Tea Cup - Wave / 小鹿田焼 湯呑み k8-1296/k7-1307 a traditional gesture meant toTo reach the village of Onta ware, you travel into the mountains of Hita, Oita Prefecture. Before seeing the kilns, you hear them. The soft, rhythmic sound of karausu traditional water powered wooden mills echoes through the valley as they slowly crush the local clay. It is a sound that seems to belong to the landscape itself, and a sign that you have arrived in Sarayama, the small pottery village where Onta ware has been made for around 300 years.