Hagi ware pottery, born for Matcha chawan cups In Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600), the long provincial war in Japan was about to end. The influential daimyos and samurais had to have the social skills for building up the good hierarchical or diplomatic relationships. What most of them could do was the tea ceremony. The tea ceremony had […]
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Japanese vases of the traditional blue and white (Sometsuke) Imari (Arita) ware ceramic Imari (Arita) ware is the oldest porcelain in Japan. Also, the ceramic has the oldest history of the Sometsuke technique in the country. Sometsuke is the way to paint on a white porcelain with zaffer pigment. It was invented in China
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Traditional Hagi-yaki for the Japanese sake flask tokkuri and katakuchi When it comes to the Japanese ceramics, there are the various producing areas. And each of them has the characters. If you look for a sake bottle which has simple and profound charm, I recommend Hagi ware. Compared with Imari (Arita) ware or Kutani
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Traditional but not old-fashioned ceramic or cast iron teapot kyusu The culture of Japan also has continued to change day by day. Meanwhile, the unchanged traditional crafts became to receive the reputation of “out‐of‐date” in the country. The people overseas firstly had found much of interest in but the East ethnic products gradually lost
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Japanese traditional earthware sake cups What kind of drinking ware when you taste sake? Just like a wine glass or beer cup, the kind of the sake cups (guinomi/choko) make the taste different. It is due to the materials, shapes, and even colors. Imari (Arita) ware sake cups Kutani ware sake cups Edo-kiriko glass
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Japanese pottery Hagi ware sets of yunomi (tea cups) and kyusu (teapot) Why don’t you enjoy drinking Japanese green tea while feeling the mind of “wabi” and “sabi”? They which originated from the tea ceremony express one of the Japanese cultures. The gorgeous ceramic wares Imari (Arita) or Kutani have been popular around the
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Yunomi cups of Hagi ware pottery In the early 17th century, the long Age of Civil Wars in Japan finally finished. The tea ceremony became popular among the samurai in a high status. Accordingly, they made much of the tea things including the bowls. Many daimyos ordered the potters to create their original pottery
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Craftsman Fujii Kinsai’s decorative plates of Imari-yaki (Arita-yaki) The porcelains of Imari (Arita) ware has the various airs. Luxury, gorgeous, elegant, and wabi-sabi. No other porcelain in Japan expresses the whole beauty of Japanese art as Imari-yaki. Because it is the oldest porcelain in Japan. The Imari ware was born in 16th century. Though
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Imari ware (Arita ware) guinomi and tokkuri drinking ware Since the taste of sake water is really delicate flavor, you would get a sense of the difference of the drinking ware. The Japanese ceramic sake cups and bottles fit for sake after all. The surface of the Imari ware is mellow and
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Kutani-yaki pottery and porcelain teaware for sale at Amazon I think one of the pleasures to use Kutani ware is feeling its touch of the surface. It is true that the fine paintings attract our eyes, but the small elevation is too good to miss. That results from the coloring of Kutani-yaki, which is less common
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