Kilns in East and North Asia: The adoption of ceramic industries

Abstract

The purpose and content of the book are briefly introduced, covering the 18 chapters that are presented in four parts based on regions and chronology. The terminology and classification of kilns and firing techniques in East Asia are discussed in order to clarify choices for terminology in the various chapters (a unification of terms and names is provided in a glossary at the end of the book). In other words, the introduction summarizes the history of research on kiln classification in China, as well as in Korea and the Japanese archipelago, and presents a proposal to classify East Asian kilns according to a unified standard (without imposing this standard on the authors), as an attempt to create standard terminology over this wide region for future research.