The village was littered with Hanasaki ceramics, to the point that even the buildings appeared all white because so much pottery adorned them. Sasori and his Akatsuki partner, Deidara, visited the village in order to take the village's white clay for use in Deidara's Exploding Clay. After acquiring it, Deidara blew up the village with his C2, killing everyone living there. They spared only Kanyū, believing that she alone had a respectable artistic vision.