In 1919, a local man Kenzo IWASAKI, who felt sorry for the extinction of Zeze-yaki Pottery built a nobori-gama (a stepped kiln) in his second residence, together with his friend and master painter Shunkyo YAMAMOTO, and reestablished the pottery.
大正8年に膳所焼の廃絶を惜しんだ地元の岩崎健三が、友人の画伯、山本春挙と手を組んで別邸に登り窯を築き、再興。