Historical Background & Characteristics

Nanbu Tekki started around 1650, when the local government (Nanbu-Han) invited a  "kamashi (pot producer)" from Kyoto to Morioka, and asked him or her to create the tea kettle. In Mizusawa, governed by the Date-Han (the local government), production of daily necessities castings is thriving. Even these days, they are produced with traditional techniques, such as moulding, drying, pattern pressing, skin beating, and lacquer finishing.

This Nanbu Tekki has two production areas: Morioka and pre-Mizusawa city. In Morioka, teakettles and iron kettles are produced, and in pre-Mizusawa city, daily use casting has been produced. 

Nanbu Tekki has the public image of being solid, sturdy and durable, but not only for that, it gives us the warmth of handmade through the pictures on the pot.

It has small and easy-to-handle but sensitive forms expressing Japanese beauty.