higashiyama-mono

Updated: August 23, 2026

Choice specimens received from later generations the general epithet Higashiyama-mono, in reference to the fact that they owed so much to the patronage of Yoshimasa in his mansion at Higashi-yama. To the Muromachi epoch belongs also the first manufacture of faience, as distinguished from unglazed pottery, and of porcelain, as distinguished from earthenware.

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