Company Name
Narushima-Yaki Wakuigama
Year of establishment
1830
Type of industry
Pottery and porcelain artist
Main products
Pottery and porcelain works
Post code
993-0033
Company address
1812 Imaizumi Nagai Yamagata Japan
Representative
Osamu WAKUI
Person in charge
Osamu WAKUI
T E L
+81-238-88-9205
Main selling channels
Department store
EC sales results
Domestic EC site
Available language
Japanese
Narushima-Yaki was established as a potteries of the Yonezawa Domain in the middle of the Edo era, as a part of industry promotion under the instruction of Yozan UESUGI.Narushima-Yaki reached their peak at the end of Taisho Era, but then disappeared.At the beginning of Showa Era, our grandfather Toshizo WAKUI who was the second son of 「Shin Kame Ya」a potteries of Hirashimizu-yaki in Yamagata city, moved to Nagai city for the better pottery clay.Then he started his own business manufacturing and selling of clay pipes to succeed.
We have a 250year history of continuing the traditional Narushima-Yaki, our aim is to keep on protecting our tradition.We make our products with a vision of the future.We use only local cray only, for glaze we use blend of ash from straw, bran and soil, all by-products from rice crops.We are particular about our work full of originality expression.
All of our work is done by the hand of skilled craftsman’s hand with their full of emotion, we do not use any form. Our work is formed with a potter’s wheel and Slab forming, the shape is the same but each one has a different expression and the scene.Each work is original and has the craftsman’s originality.
We are a full member of the Japan Kogei Association, we would like to transmit the splendor of Japanese traditional craft to the world towards the development of traditional Japanese craft.
We also connect to the community through tours of our studios and offer field experience to kids from kinder gardens, students of elementary schools, junior high schools, high schools and special support education schools.
We try our best to develop local culture awareness and successor upbringing so that we can gain the support, understanding and interest of traditional craft from the local people.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Square incense burner, celadon and white porcelain
Generic name
Incense burner
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
14cm x 10cm x 10cm
Weight
1kg
Domestic retail price
JPY100,000.- (excluding tax)
This work has an elaborated form in four direction by slab forming.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Tokkuri, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Tokkuri
Materials
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
13cm x 7cm x 7cm
Weight
200g
Domestic retail price
JPY30,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is formed by potter's wheel. Unglazed calcination process. Gold kiln modification.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Tokkuri with glittering glaze
Generic name
Tokkuri
Materials
Clay
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
14.5cm x 8cm x 8cm
Weight
250g
Domestic retail price
JPY30,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with local clay and formed using a potter’s wheel. It expresses a beautiful traditional Narushima-Yaki glaze and fired.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Incense burner, colored porcelain with irises
Generic name
Incense burner
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
11cm x 11cm x 11cm
Weight
350g
Domestic retail price
JPY350,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed using a potter’s wheel. The iris pattern comes from repeatedly applying colored clay slurry and expressed in relief. The thin lines of the petals are finished by in laying.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Incense burner, celadon and white porcelain with sharpened patten
Generic name
Incense burner
Materials
Porcelain and clay
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
12.5cm x 9.6cm x 9.6cm
Weight
500g
Domestic retail price
JPY200,000.- (excluding tax)
The main body of the incense burner is made with porcelain clay and formed using a potter’s wheel and planed. It expresses a rhythmical and refreshingly beautiful blue and white glaze. In contrast, Hoya is made with clay and wildly expressed by unglazed calcination. This work is done with the harmony of opposite beautifulness in mind.
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wakuigama
Product name
Glittering glazed pot
Generic name
Pot
Materials
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
28 × 28 × 高さ25cm
Weight
4.0kg
Domestic retail price
1812 Imaizumi, Nagai-city, Yamagata, Japan
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. It gives a fresh expression to the beautiful glaze traditional to Narushima ware.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Guinomi, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Guinomi
Materials
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
5cm x 6.5cm x 6.5cm
Weight
100g
Domestic retail price
JPY30,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with local clay and formed using a potter’s wheel. It is made with an unglazed calcination process and transformed to a golden color in a kiln. It expresses an interesting harmony of a beautiful gold kiln transform and a wild landscape.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Yunomi, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Yunomi
Materials
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
7.5cm x 7cm x 7cm
Weight
100g
Domestic retail price
JPY30,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with local clay and formed using a potter’s wheel. It is made with an unglazed calcination process and transformed to a golden color in a kiln. It expresses an interesting harmony of beautiful gold kiln transform and wild landscape.
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wakuigama
Product name
Namako glazed vase with ears
Generic name
vase
Materials
Clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
21 × 18 × 高さ39cm
Weight
3.5kg
Domestic retail price
JPY1,500,000 (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. It fully expresses the beauty of glaze traditional to Narushima ware.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Square dish, celadon and white porcelain with heron grass
Generic name
Square dish
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
1.3cm x 14.5cm x 14.5cm
Weight
250g
Domestic retail price
JPY50,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed by molding. After drying, the pattern of phalaenopsis is repeatedly applied with colored clay slurry. An expression of a fringed orchid in relief, is complemented with a beautiful blue and white glaze and fired.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Vase, inlaid porcelain with snowflakes
Generic name
Vase
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
17cm x 27cm x 27cm
Weight
1.2kg
Domestic retail price
JPY350,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed using a potter’s wheel. After drying, it is cut out dodecagonal to complete the form, then carved with snow crystal for a flower pattern and gradation is expressed by inlaying colored clay into the back ground.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Box, celadon and white porcelain with gradation mountain flower
Generic name
Box
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
11cm x 24.5cm x 14cm
Weight
3.0kg
Domestic retail price
JPY2,000,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with two lumps of porcelain clay dried for few months, used on the outer surface together before being and carved out enclose and complete the form. Each petal of the flower pattern is expressed in gradation by inlaying.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Hexagon box, celadon and white porcelain with gradation snowflakes
Generic name
Hexagon box
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
14.5cm x 27.5cm x 29.5cm
Weight
5.0kg
Domestic retail price
JPY3,000,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and thickly formed with a potter’s wheel. While drying, the form was completed by shaving to aligning the inside and outside of the lid and the body to the hexagon. Snow crystal pattern is expressed with gradation by inlaying colored clay into the background.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Octagonal box celadon and white porcelain with gradation flowers
Generic name
Octagonal box
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
13.5cm x 28cm x 28cm
Weight
4.3kg
Domestic retail price
JPY3,000,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and thickly formed with a potter’s wheel. While drying, the form was completed by shaving to aligning the inside and outside of the lid and the body to the octagon. Each petal of the flower pattern is expressed with gradation by inlaying colored clay into the background.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Pot, colored porcelain with phalaenopsis orchid
Generic name
Pot
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
22cm x 25cm x 25cm
Weight
2.7kg
Domestic retail price
JPY1,500,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed with a potter’s wheel. After completely drying, phalaenopsis pattern is repeatedly applied by colored clay slurry and expressed in relief.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Square pot, celadon and white porcelain with cherry blossoms
Generic name
Square pot
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
41cm x 20.5cm x 20.5cm
Weight
6.4kg
Domestic retail price
JPY3,000,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed by slab forming. After completely drying, cherry blossom pattern is repeatedly applied by colored clay slurry and expressed in relief. Finished with a beautiful blue and white porcelain glaze and fired.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Square pot, colored porcelain with Oriental lady’s thumb pattern
Generic name
Square pot
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
38cm x 15cm x 15cm
Weight
4.2kg
Domestic retail price
JPY2,800,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed by slab forming. After completely drying, Persicaria longiseta pattern (Akamanma) is repeatedly applied by colored clay slurry and expressed in relief.
Brand name
Narushima-Yaki
Product name
Rhomb pot, celadon and with porcelain with wisteria
Generic name
Rhomb pot
Materials
Porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu WAKUI
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
45cm x 28cm x 19cm
Weight
4.0kg
Domestic retail price
JPY3,000,000.- (excluding tax)
This work is made with porcelain clay and formed by slab forming. After completely drying, wisteria flowers are repeatedly applied by colored clay slurry and expressed in relief.
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Tea bowl, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Tea bowl
Materials
Pottery clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
12.8×12.8×H8cm
Weight
0.8kg
Domestic retail price
JPY3,000,000 (excluding tax)
Made from a single type of local pottery clay, handmade by pinching. Unglazed yakishime ware fired in a traditional wood-fired kiln for a kiln mutation (yohen) that results in an attractive gold-hued surface effect (keshiki).
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Pot, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Pot
Materials
Pottery clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
17.5×17.5×H23cm
Weight
1.2kg
Domestic retail price
JPY1,200,000 (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. Unglazed yakishime ware fired in a traditional wood-fired kiln for a kiln mutation (yohen) that results in an attractive gold-hued surface effect (keshiki).
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Tea bowl, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Tea bowl
Materials
Pottery clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
12.8×12.8×H 8cm
Weight
0.7kg
Domestic retail price
JPY2,500,000 (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. Unglazed yakishime ware fired in a traditional wood-fired kiln for a kiln mutation (yohen) that results in an attractive gold-hued surface effect (keshiki).
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Flower vase, color changed in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Pot
Materials
Pottery clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
23.5 x 23.5 x H 22cm
Weight
1.5kg
Domestic retail price
JPY500,000 (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. Unglazed yakishime ware fired in a traditional wood-fired kiln for a kiln mutation (yohen) that results in an attractive gold-hued surface effect (keshiki).
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Potl and glass, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Generic name
Materials
Pottery clay
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
Tokkuri 8 × 8 × H 13.5cm Guinomi 7 × 7 × H 4.5cm
Weight
Tokkuri 230g Guinomi 63g
Domestic retail price
JPY120,000 ( Pot x 2, Glass x 2 ) (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from a single type of local pottery clay. Unglazed yakishime ware fired in a traditional wood-fired kiln for a kiln mutation (yohen) that results in an attractive gold-hued surface effect (keshiki).
Brand name
Narusimayaki Wkuigama
Product name
Sake pot and glass, white porcelain
Generic name
Sake pot and glass
Materials
porcelain
Person in Charge
Osamu Wakui
Production area
Nagai Yamagata Japan
Size
Tokkuri 9 × 9 × H 10cm Sakazuki 8.5 × 8.5 × H 10cm
Weight
Tokkuri 250g Sakazuki 75g
Domestic retail price
JPY50,000 ( Pot x 1, Glass x 1 ) (excluding tax)
Wheel-thrown from porcelain clay. Devoid of decoration to emphasize the purity of form, and highlight the beauty of hakuji (white porcelain).
Square incense burner, celadon and white porcelain
Tokkuri, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Tokkuri with glittering glaze
Incense burner, colored porcelain with irises
Incense burner, celadon and white porcelain with sharpened patten
Glittering glazed pot
Guinomi, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Yunomi, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Namako glazed vase with ears
Square dish, celadon and white porcelain with heron grass
Vase, inlaid porcelain with snowflakes
Box, celadon and white porcelain with gradation mountain flower
Hexagon box, celadon and white porcelain with gradation snowflakes
Octagonal box celadon and white porcelain with gradation flowers
Pot, colored porcelain with phalaenopsis orchid
Square pot, celadon and white porcelain with cherry blossoms
Square pot, colored porcelain with Oriental lady’s thumb pattern
Rhomb pot, celadon and with porcelain with wisteria
Tea bowl, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Pot, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Tea bowl, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Flower vase, color changed in the kiln without any glazes
Potl and glass, color changed to gold in the kiln without any glazes
Sake pot and glass, white porcelain
