Mashiko (Tochigi)

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Mashiko-machi
益 子 町
Mashiko
Geographical location in Japan
Mashiko (Tochigi) (Japan)
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Region : Kanto
Prefecture : Tochigi
Coordinates : 36 ° 28 '  N , 140 ° 6'  E Coordinates: 36 ° 28 '2 "  N , 140 ° 5' 36"  E
Basic data
Surface: 89.40 km²
Residents : 22,116
(October 1, 2019)
Population density : 247 inhabitants per km²
Community key : 09342-4
Symbols
Flag / coat of arms:
Flag / coat of arms of Mashiko
town hall
Address : Mashiko Town Hall
2030 , Ōaza Mashiko
Mashiko - machi , Haga-gun
Tochigi  321-4293
Website URL: http://www.town.mashiko.tochigi.jp/
Location of Mashikos in Tochigi Prefecture
Location of Mashikos in the prefecture

Mashiko ( Japanese 益 子 町 Mashiko-machi ) is a city ( machi ) in the district (gun) Haga of the Japanese prefecture (ken) Tochigi , which has national importance as a pottery town.

The size of the community reached today in the Great Shōwa Territorial Reform, when the city of Mashiko merged with the villages (-mura) Nanai and Tano in 1954 .

Pottery in Mashiko

Mashiko, Central Sales
A type of Mashiko-yaki
Another type of mashiko-yaki
Entrance to Hamada's workshop

Pottery in Mashiko dates back to the Nara period , but then gets lost in history.

Today's development began in 1853 when Ōtsuka Keisaburō (大 塚 啓 三郎; 1828–1876), then only 26 years old, put on a kiln in Nekoya (根 古屋) and so revived pottery. The type of distillation - "yaki" - of Mashiko is derived from Sōma-yaki (相 馬 焼) and Kasama-yaki (笠 間 焼), with Ōtsuka also including the type of distillation of Fukute (福 手 村), a place nearby .

When the potter Hamada Shōji settled in Mashiko in 1924, this led to a revitalization of the local pottery, which continues to this day. His home and workshop can now be viewed under the name "Mashiko Reference Collection Museum" (益 子 参考 館, Mahiko Sankōkan). Today there are over a hundred pottery workshops in operation in Mashiko. In 1993 the "Tōgei-Messe Mashiko" (陶 芸 メ ッ セ ・ 益 子) was opened, a group of five buildings, among which is the "Mashiko Art Museum for Ceramics" (益 子 陶 芸 美術館, Mashiko kōgei bijutsukan). The woodcut artist Sasajima Kihei , who comes from Mashiko, was also given a museum there.

The Higetatei (日下 田 邸), a property declared as a cultural asset of the prefecture, was built by Higeta Kōya (日下 田 紺 屋) during the Kansei era (1789-1801) as a home and place of work. There is a vat (藍 甕, aigame) made as tokoname-yaki (常 滑 焼), which was used for indigo dyeing (藍 染 め, aizome).

Cultural assets

The following temples in Mashiko have buildings and objects that are declared important cultural assets of Japan :

Personalities

literature

  • Tochigi-ken no rekishi sampo henshū iinkai (Ed.): Mashiko messe - Mashiko . In: Tochigi-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2008. ISBN 978-4-634-24609-6 .
  • Kondo, Kyoji: Mashiko no Togeika (Directory of Potters) . Kanuma, 1989.
  • Mashiko-machi kanko kyokai (Ed.): Mashiko - Yakimono no furusato . Leaflet 1989.

Web links

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