Shizuhata_yaki comes from Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1600s. In the early Edo period (1603 to 1868), Tarouzaemon Ohta, founder of Shizuhata_yaki, started making pottery. The name 'Shizuhata' comes from Mt. Shizuhata where the pottery was located, and 'yaki' means pottery and porcelain. The Shizuhata_yaki pottery had developed as the Shogun pottery. However, in the late 1820s the Shizuhata_yaki factory was totally ruined by the flood of Abe River, and had been on the road to decline. In the early Meiji Era (1868 to 1912) , Manjiro Ohta tried resuming the pottery, but it had never returned to the former glory. In the mid Meiji Era, Shizuoka Prefecture launched on rebuilding of Shizuhata_yaki as a part of local industry development project, and invited Shosuke Aoshima to resume Shizuhata_yaki pottery. The second generation, Goro Aoshima has incorporated the technique of Tokoname_yaki into Shizuhata_yaki. The third generation, Shuka has incorporated the technique called "yakijime" (high-temparature firing of ceramics). After the fourth generation Tuichi Aoshima, the fifth generation Shunjuka has kept Shizuhata_yaki Shuka Pottery.