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POTPURRI × MINO DONBURI

2025.1.15(Wed)-2.2(Sun)
POTPURRI Kiyosumi-Shirakawa

2025.1.16(Thu)-2.11(Tue)
POTPURRI Shoin-jinja

Donburi bowls from Mino's kilns
Donburi bowls are a familiar form of Mino ware, a pottery tradition spanning some 1,300 years. Each kiln brings its own ideas and skills to the form.

The selection brought together bowls from more than ten kilns, offering a wide variety of shapes to suit different meals and ways of living.
Visitors could explore the selection at their nearest POTPURRI shop.

2025.1.15(Wed)-2.2(Sun)
POTPURRI Kiyosumi-Shirakawa

2025.1.16(Thu)-2.11(Tue)
POTPURRI Shoin-jinja

Donburi bowls from Mino's kilns
Donburi bowls, a familiar form in Mino's pottery tradition of some 1,300 years,
reflect the individual ideas and skills of the kilns that make them.

The selection brought together a remarkable variety of bowls from more than ten kilns.
A chance to choose a bowl that suits the way you cook and eat.
Visitors could explore the selection at their nearest POTPURRI shop.

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MINO DONBURI

Mino ware has a history of more than 1,300 years. Its local clays developed over long geological periods, including deposits associated with the ancient Lake Tokai.
The Mino region is rich in different kinds of ceramic clay.

Mino ware is made across Toki, Tajimi, Kani and Mizunami, where smaller pottery districts together form a major ceramics-producing region.
Dachi is one of those districts and is especially known for its production of donburi bowls.

Donburi meals are often linked to hōhan, a dish of rice topped with other ingredients associated with Buddhist temple cuisine. During the Edo period, quick, informal rice-bowl meals became popular with townspeople and artisans.

Today, the convenience of serving rice and a variety of ingredients in one bowl has made donburi popular well beyond Japan.
MINO DONBURI shares that history and culture through bowls made for contemporary life, together with the stories of their makers.

 

MINO DONBURI

Mino ware has a history of more than 1,300 years. Its local clays developed over long geological periods, including deposits associated with the ancient Lake Tokai.
The Mino region is rich in different kinds of ceramic clay.

Mino ware is made across Toki, Tajimi, Kani and Mizunami, where smaller pottery districts together form a major ceramics-producing region.
Dachi is one of those districts and is especially known for its production of donburi bowls.

Donburi meals are often linked to hōhan, a dish of rice topped with other ingredients associated with Buddhist temple cuisine. During the Edo period, quick, informal rice-bowl meals became popular with townspeople and artisans.

Today, the convenience of serving rice and a variety of ingredients in one bowl has made donburi popular well beyond Japan.
MINO DONBURI shares that history and culture through bowls made for contemporary life, together with the stories of their makers.