Iron pot, also known as iron bottle, is a vessel used for frying tea and boiling water. The teapot is made of pig iron, adopting traditional casting technology and hand-polished in the later stage, which has both health care, ornamental and collection value.

Iron pots can be traced back to the edo period hundreds of years ago. After tea ceremony was introduced to Japan from China, it became a fashion in Japan. During the Edo period, tea lovers used a "teapot" with a water injection port and a handle to make tea, and iron pot was born.

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The iron bottle first appeared with the teapot. The original iron bottle was called a hand-held kettle. According to historical records, hand-held kettles first appeared in the Muromachi era in the second year of Yanqing (1309), and their uses were mostly medicinal.

Holding a kettle is a work of Muromachi shogunate era, which is different from the current iron bottle with three feet as the support point at the bottom.

In A.D. 1750, the modern iron bottle was designed, manufactured and shaped by three generations of Koizumi, who became the founder of the modern iron bottle. At the end of the Edo period (1860s), the sixth generation Koizumi made the iron bottle of Ebisu Daheiye, which was specially sold by merchants.

Merchants also have a high evaluation of this work, and the works made by Koizumi of the six generations are called Nantie Bottle. Since then, the iron bottle has become popular among the general public, and the southern iron bottle has also become famous.