hanishibe

Updated: May 5, 2025

The muraji of the Hanishi was ordered to furnish craftsmen to manufacture "pure utensils" for serving viands daily in the palace. They were organized into the Nie no Hanishibe, or hereditary corporation of potters of table-utensils. But there does not appear to be sufficient ground for a conclusion formed by some historians that the "pure utensils" mentioned above were of glazed pottery.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era