Until the early Kofun period in Japan, earthenware was baked in an oxidizing fire at sites such as baking pits for earthenware or Haji ware (a type of plain, unglazed, reddish-brown Japanese earthenware) in a manner similar to field burning.
日本では、古墳時代初頭までは野焼きのように土器焼成坑、土師器焼成坑などの施設で酸化焔焼成によって土器が焼かれていた。