Encountering the Landscape Called 'Tambayaki' | Official Audio Guide Released for 'Tamba Traditional Craft Park, Tachikui Sue no Sato'

ON THE TRIP Co., Ltd., in collaboration with Tamba-Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture, has released the official audio guide for the 'Tamba Traditional Craft Park, Tachikui Sue no Sato', a comprehensive cultural recreation facility themed around Tambayaki, one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns.

Guide URL: https://on-the-trip.net/spots/816

Set in Tachikui, Imada-cho, Tamba-Sasayama City, the production area of Tambayaki (one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns), this guide uses audio to introduce the history and culture of Tambayaki, which boasts an 800-year history.

As you visit the 7 spots scattered within Sue no Sato, you will hear the stories of the people who have lived alongside Tambayaki. When you touch upon these invisible stories, the landscape called "Tambayaki" slowly emerges.

The guide was produced by ON THE TRIP Co., Ltd. (https://on-the-trip.com/), a company that creates official audio guides for domestic temples, shrines, museums, and art festivals. They create an audio guide app that allows users to explore spots mapped on a digital map while listening to the audio guide. In addition to Japanese, it also supports English and Chinese for foreign tourists visiting Japan.

Fire, Earth, and 800 Years of Living | Records of People Who Kept the Fire Burning Tambayaki is pottery with an 800-year history made in Tamba-Sasayama City, Hyogo Prefecture. As one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns (Nihon Rokkoyo)—representative ceramics production areas continuing from the Middle Ages to the present—it was registered as a Japan Heritage site in 2017.

The Six Ancient Kilns are Seto, Tokoname, Shigaraki, Bizen, Echizen, and this Tamba. Among them, Tambayaki might be the pottery whose "essence" is the hardest to describe in a single word. In the world of antiques, the following phrase used to be spoken:

"If you don't recognize the pottery, assume it's Tamba."

Known as the "Seven Transformations of Tamba," it was said to have seven faces. Showing such diverse forms, Tambayaki is pottery that has continued to be made for 800 years.