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Sometsuke Seigaiha Sakura Nagasara (染付青海波桜長皿)

This is an Arita ware plate which Hidezumi-san has created.
He painted the cherry blossoms and semicircular repeated waves pattern.
Large dish is suitable for raw fishes cut into piece, osushi.
Small plate is also used for sake cup or small bowl.
"Sakura" is one of the flowers that represent Japan, so it's great as a gift in all seasons.
This is a set of two plates (Large 1 pc, Small 1 pc).

Sometsuke (染付)
- A pottery with blue pictures and patterns on a white background-

It refers to the skill of blue-painting on a unglazed ceramic.
Patterns are painted with a "gosu" containing cobalt oxide that turns blue color.
And it's baked after being glazed on top of it.

Sometsuke has been made from the early days of Arita ware in 1610s.
At first it was influenced the Chinese pottery, there's a pile of efforts by potters and
today's sometsuke has one kind of exquisite beauty even in its simplicity.