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Kisha (railway train) dobin teapots are a typical Mashiko-ware article of a type which was widely used in Eastern Japan. It was usually sold at train stations together with ekiben (meals packed for travelers to be eaten on the train during a long journey). Each kisha dobin teapot carries on it both the name of the station where the tea was put into the pot and the distributor's name. A large number of kisha dobin teapots have been unearthed from the sites of old pottery studios that operated in the middle of the Taisho period. They seem to have been discarded as defectives during the pottery-making process.