A term for oteimono, it refers to miscellaneous daily-use utensils for ordinary people, produced in large numbers rather than as a single piece. In other words, they are not ceremonial or aristocratic items, but items for daily practical use. Although some of them may be inferior, the mass production inevitably leads to skilled craftsmanship, and many of them are elegant and graceful. From the late Taisho period (1912-1926) to the early Showa period (1926-1989), the folk art movement led by Muneyoshi Yanagi reaffirmed the craft-like beauty hidden in these unrefined works made by unknown potters, and many of them were developed and highly valued as folk art objects.
