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4 unusual facts about Arita


Arita, Saga

Tozan Shrine has a porcelain archway and other items of porcelain which, at other shrines, are usually made of stone.

Edmé Samson

Imari wares, named for the Japanese port where a type of richly decorated porcelain made at Arita was shipped, were also copied by Samson.

Hatase Buemon

Nabeshima opened the first porcelain kiln in the Arita area of Iwatani Kawachi, soon he moved the kiln to Minamikawara.

Hiromi Iwanaga

A native of Arita, Saga and dropout of Chuo University, he had served in the assembly of Saga Prefecture for six terms since 1975 and was elected to the House of Councillors for the first time in 1995.


Kami-Arita Station

An employee is dispatched by the limit from Arita Station all over Arita Tōkiichi held period (in Golden Week), and some limited express Midori and Huis Ten Bosch trains stopping at this station every year.

Mayatan Bilingual School

The school was founded in 1991 by a local Copán Ruinas woman, Nora Arita de Welchez, who wanted to give her children the opportunity to get a quality education in English without having to leave the town.

Moses Arita

Arita was born and raised in Nakuru where he attended Mama Ngina Primary School, he then went to Manor High School in Rift Valley.

After a rather unsuccessful season at KF Tirana, Arita returned to Thika United for the 2012 Kenyan Premier League.

Type 4 grenade

Kilns famous for the production of traditional Japanese pottery, such as Arita, Bizen and Seto were pressed into service to manufacture these relatively crude weapons.

Yi Sam-pyeong

He searched for kaolin, and eventually in 1616 he discovered a kaolin deposit on the Izumi Mountain in Arita, effectively starting the porcelain industry in Japan.

The hegemony was reaffirmed in 1917 when a monument titled "Monument for the Father of Porcelain Yi Sam-pyeong" was built in Sueyama Shrine of Arita.


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