Is it legal to collect at Suzu, Japan: Iida and Kinoura beaches, Noto trade route ceramics?

Restricted. Japan Lost Property Act and Cultural Properties Protection Act; Noto peninsula coast is partly Noto Hanto Quasi-National Park where taking drift items is banned; 2024 earthquake uplift changed the shoreline

What can you find at Suzu, Japan: Iida and Kinoura beaches, Noto trade route ceramics?

blue and white porcelain, Chinese wares, Edo and Meiji stoneware, salt-making pottery, sea glass

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Suzu, Japan

Iida and Kinoura beaches, Noto trade route ceramics

Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted

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What you could find

Reported finds from this shoreline.

Sea pottery

Sea glass

Wreck timber

Also reported: Chinese wares.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: NPS (Public domain), Moximox (CC BY-SA 4.0), NPS photo (Public domain).

Why this spot

Kitamaebune coastal trade and Heian salt making on the Noto tip; wreck and settlement ceramics come ashore.

Kanazawa University underwater heritage survey (Kindai Kokogaku 70, 2011): Iida beach yields Meiji-Taisho ceramics plus Heian salt pottery, local collector Masuya has 15th-19th c Chinese and Japanese wares; Kinoura beach late Edo onwardView source →