Suzu

Suzu lies near the tip of the Noto Peninsula, surrounded on three sides by the sea. Its medieval kilns produced dark Suzu ware, distributed along the Sea of Japan coast from southern Hokkaido to Echizen until production ended in the fifteenth century. Salt making was another important livelihood. On raised coastal salt beds, workers spread seawater over sand and later boiled the concentrated brine; from 1627 production expanded under the Kaga domain's monopoly.