What this district made was sold under the name of the district next door. Hasami has produced everyday tableware in very large quantities, and for a long stretch of its history that ware went to market as Arita. On the slopes at Nakaogō the remains of climbing kilns and brick chimneys are still standing, and they show how much of a hillside a kiln of that kind actually consumed.

At Nishinohara the buildings of a former pottery works now hold shops selling ceramics, a restaurant and a few small retailers, so an industrial site is being used rather than displayed. Arita is about twenty minutes away by car and Sasebo about forty, so the district sits inside the same working landscape as the name it was sold under. Job listings in the ceramics industry continue to appear, so it is possible to be part of the trade here on a salary. What Hasami took on was never elaborate decoration; it was durability and price, and it carried that role for generations without a name attached to it.

Work that carries no name survives as quantity instead. Because this district went on making unmarked domestic ware, its record is not held in museum cases but distributed through kitchen cupboards across the country, in pieces nobody thought to attribute. That is a real achievement and an almost entirely invisible one, since the pieces carrying it were never signed and are not collected. Selling under its own name is something Hasami began to do comparatively recently, after a century and more of supplying somebody else's, and the shift is still in progress.