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Sometsuke Karakusamon Kakuzara (染付唐草文角皿)

This is an Arita ware plate which Hidezumi-san has created.
He shaped the dish with throwing on a potter’s wheell and painted the vines-coiled pattern by hand.
The Karakusa-monyo pattern means that the vines are growing in all directions and become tangled.
This is a set of two plates (2 pcs).

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.