The  consists of historical and existing pottery kilns in Japan and the Japanese pottery and porcelain ware they primarily produced.

The list contains kilns of the post-Heian period. Not listed are ancient earthenware pottery such as Jōmon pottery, Yayoi pottery, Haji pottery, Sue pottery, Kamui ware, etc. which are general topics whose origins and production cannot be linked to just one specific kiln. Shimamono are objects that were imported from southeast Asia, but later produced locally as well. Mishima pottery despite its name is of Korean origin.

Some of the existing kilns and the main ceramic wares have been designated by the government Agency for Cultural Affairs as an Intangible Cultural Property as regulated by the Law for the Protection of Cultural Properties (1950). In addition the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) has designated others as "traditional handicraft workshops". The criteria set by the ministry to be recognised as a  are regulated by Law No. 57 on the Promotion of Traditional Craft Industries (1974), also known as the :
It is primarily a craft for everyday life usage 
The manufacturing process has to be largely done manually
Has a history of over 100 years, with production continuing to use traditional technologies and techniques
The type of main raw material has remained the same for over 100 years.
Artisans producing the craft have to have a certain degree of scale to be counted as a regional industry

Amongst the list are also the so-called  attributed to Kobori Enshū during the Edo period, as well as the  by Fujiyo Koyama during the Shōwa era.

The listing follows a geographical arrangement from north to southern Japan. It is divided by regions, then prefectures, then within the prefectures in alphabetical order. Those designated by the government are in bold letters, those listed under Enshū are marked with a 7 and those by Koyama with a 6 sign in brackets.

Hokkaidō 
 Kita Arashiyama ()
 Kobushi-yaki ()
 Otaru-yaki ()
 Tōraku-yaki

Tōhoku

Aomori 
 Hachinohe-yaki ()
 Tsugaru-yaki ()

Akita 
 Naraoka-yaki ()
 Shiraiwa-yaki ()

Fukushima 
 Aizuhongō-yaki ()
 Aizukeizan-yaki ()
 Nihonmatsubanko-yaki ()
 Ōborisōma-yaki ()
 Sōmakoma-yaki ()
 Tajimabanko-yaki ()

Iwate 
 Dai-yaki ()
 Fujisawa-yaki ()
 Kajichō-yaki ()
 Kokuji-yaki ()

Miyagi 
 Daigamori-yaki ()
 Kirigome-yaki ()
 Tsutsumi-yaki ()

Yamagata 
 Goten-yaki ()
 Hirashimizu-yaki ()
 Kami no hata-yaki ()
 Narushima-yaki ()
 Shinjō Higashiyama-yaki ()

Kantō

Gunma 
 Jijōji-yaki ()
 Shibutami-yaki () 
 Tsukiyono-yaki ()

Ibaraki 
 Kasama-yaki ()

Saitama 
 Hannō-yaki ()

Tochigi 
 Koisago-yaki ()
 Mashiko-yaki ()
 Mikamo-yaki ()

Tokyō 
 Imado-yaki ()

Chūbu

Aichi 
 Akazu-yaki () 
 Hōraku-yaki () 
 Inuyama-yaki () 
 Seto-yaki ()  (6)
 Ofukei-yaki ()
 Tokoname-yaki ()  (6)

Fukui 
 Echizen-yaki () (6)

Gifu 
 Koito-yaki ()
 Mino-yaki ()
 Oribe-yaki ()
 Shino-yaki ()
 Shibukusa-yaki ()
 Yamada-yaki ()

Ishikawa 
 Kutani-yaki ()
 Ōhi-yaki ()
 Suzu-yaki ()

Nagano 
 Matsushiro-yaki ()
 Obayashi-yaki ()
 Takatō-yaki ()
 Tenryūkyō-yaki ()

Niigata 
 Anchi-yaki ()
 Muramatsu-yaki ()
 Mumyōi-yaki ()

Shizuoka 
 Moriyama-yaki ()
 Shitoro-yaki () (7) 
 Shizuhata-yaki ()

Toyama 
 Etchū Maruyama-yaki ()
 Etchū Seto-yaki ()
 Kosugi-yaki ()
 Sansuke-yaki ()

Yamanashi 
 Nōketsu-yaki ()

Kansai

Hyōgo 
 Awaji ware (), also known as Minpei or Mimpei ware 
 Akōunka-yaki ()
 Izushi-yaki ()
 Minpei-yaki ()
 Tanba Tachikui-yaki () (6)

Kyōto 
 Asahi-yaki () (7)
 Kiyomizu-yaki ()
 Kyō-yaki ()
 Raku-yaki ()

Mie 
 Akogi-yaki ()
 Banko-yaki ()
 Iga-yaki ()
 Mihama-yaki ()

Nara 
 Akahada-yaki () (7)

Ōsaka 
 Kikkō-yaki ()
 Kosobe-yaki () (7)

Shiga 
 Hatta-yaki ()
 Konan-yaki ()
 Kotō-yaki ()
 Shigaraki-yaki () (6)
 Zeze-yaki () (7)

Wakayama 
 Zuishi-yaki ()

Chūgoku

Hiroshima 
 Himetani-yaki ()
 Miyajima-yaki ()

Okayama 
 Bizen-yaki () (6)
 Hashima-yaki ()
 Mushiake-yaki ()
 Sakazu-yaki ()

Shimane 
 Banshōzan-yaki ()
 Fujina-yaki ()
 Hachiman-yaki ()
 Iwami-yaki ()
 Mijiro-yaki ()
 Mori-yaki ()
 Sodeshi-yaki ()
 Shussai-yaki ()
 Yunotsu-yaki ()

Tottori 
 Inkyūzan-yaki ()
 Hosshōji-yaki ()
 Kazuwa-yaki ()
 Uradome-yaki ()
 Ushino-yaki ()

Yamaguchi 
 Hagi-yaki ()
 Seiri-yaki ()
 Sueda-yaki ()

Shikoku

Ehime 
 Rakuzan-yaki ()
 Suigetsu-yaki ()
 Tobe-yaki ()

Kagawa 
 Kamikage-yaki ()
 Okamoto-yaki ()
 Rihei-yaki ()

Kōchi 
 Nōsayama-yaki ()
 Odo-yaki ()
 Uraharano-yaki ()

Tokushima 
 Ōtani-yaki ()

Kyūshū

Fukuoka 
 Agano-yaki () (7)
 Futagawa-yaki ()
 Kamachi-yaki ()
 Koishiwara-yaki ()
 Takatori-yaki () (7)

Kagoshima 
 Satsuma-yaki ()
 Ryūmonji-yaki ()
 Tanegashima-yaki ()

Kumamoto 
 Amakusa tōjiki ()
 Kodai-yaki ()
 Shōdai-yaki ()

Miyazaki 
 Komatsubara-yaki ()
 Tojō-yaki ()

Nagasaki 
 Hasami-yaki ()
 Mikawachi-yaki ()
 Nagayo-yaki ()
 Utsutsugawa-yaki ()

Oita 
 Onta-yaki ()

Saga 
 Arita-yaki ()
 Imari-yaki ()
 Hizen Yoshida-yaki ()
 Hizen Ozaki-yaki ()
 Karatsu-yaki ()
 Shiraishi-yaki ()

Ryukyu Islands 
 Ryūkyū-yaki ()
 Tsuboya-yaki ()

References

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