A climbing kiln of Tōei-yō

This noborigama (climbing kiln) called Tōei-yō was built in 1887. An eight-chamber renbōshiki noborigama (multi-chambered climbing kiln), its overall length is 22m and its greatest width is 9.6m. According to documentation of 1912, Tokonome’s noborigama at that time numbered approximately sixty, but today this is the only noborigama of its time that remains in its entirety. Not only is the kiln’s main section preserved, but its adjoining ceramics workshop is as well, making it a venerated historic site.