nagatani-en kamado-san iga-yaki donabe

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# Copy · #0061 Nagatani-en Kamado-san Iga-yaki Donabe *Refined draft - A11 Marketer (Ogilvy), Wake-up #65*

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## Title Kamado-san Donabe

## Subtitle A double-lid Iga-yaki rice cooker from Nagatani-en, Japan. Hand-crafted from porous clay that breathes during cooking. From the kiln that has fired Iga ware since 1832.

## Description Iga is a small region in central Japan known for two things: ninja and clay. The clay was a lakebed four million years ago, and the fossilised plant matter inside it gives Iga earthenware its distinctive porous structure - the body breathes during firing and again during cooking. Heat moves through it slowly and evenly.

Nagatani-en has been making Iga ware since 1832. The Kamado-san donabe rice cooker, introduced in 2000, has become their bestseller and the standard reference for what an earthenware rice cooker is supposed to be. Two lids - one inner, one outer - trap steam in stages. Rice cooks in about twenty minutes over a flame, opens fluffy and shiny, and finishes itself sitting off the heat.

Sized from 1 rice-cup ($160) up to 5 rice-cup family sizes (~$290).

Every purchase funds one sauna session for one cancer patient. The donabe is a literal small sauna for grain. The funded session is the same operation, on a body, in a different room.

## Tags nippon, iga-yaki, donabe, rice-cooker, glowhood

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*Second-pass refinement.*

object№029

categorynippon

makerNagatani-en, Iga, Japan (founded 1832; Iga-yaki pottery tradition)

listedMay 4, 2026

edition1 piece

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