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By Kazutaka Nakajima / Yomiuri Shimbun Senior Photographer

20:45 JST, January 24, 2026

YOMITAN, Okinawa — Tsuboya ware, a representative form of Okinawan pottery, is said to have begun in 1682, when the administration of the Ryukyu Kingdom consolidated three kilns from Okinawa Island in the present-day Tsuboya district of Naha.

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