Ohi Museum
Family kiln museum for a three-century amber-glazed tea ware tradition, with matcha service in its own tea room.
This guide to the Ohi Museum in Kanazawa follows the physical gamble behind Ohi ware: a potter pulling a glowing bowl straight from the kiln into open air, with no slow cooling to protect the amber glaze. It traces that risk back to 1666, when the tea master Sen Soshitsu brought a young Kyoto potter named Chozaemon to serve the Maeda lords of the Kaga domain, carrying an exclusive iron-oxide glaze recipe from his teacher Raku Ichinyu. You'll hear how the chemistry depends on a violent, fast firing, and why getting the timing wrong ruins the color for good. Look for how many generations still keep that recipe inside one family.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.