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Extract from the Mashiko Travel Guides: Some 30km south of Nikko, the village of
MASHIKO
, with its major pottery museum, numerous pottery shops and over three hundred working kilns spread out around the surrounding paddy fields, makes a rewarding half-day trip en route to Nikko. Although
Mashiko-yaki
, the distinctive country-style earthenware
pottery
, has been made in this area since the Nara period (710-784), the village only achieved nationwide fame in the 1930s, when the potter and "living national treasure" Hamada Shoji built a kiln here and promoted the pottery throughout Japan. Hamada's former residence has since been re...
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