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Sometsuke Sakuramon Futamono (染付桜文蓋物)

This is an Arita ware covered vessel which Hidezumi-san has created.
He shaped the body with throwing on a potter’s wheell and expressed the cherry petals pattern.
We can use this container for various purpose and is also used for cured and pickled foods, for example.
"Sakura" is one of the flowers that represent Japan, so it's great as a gift in all seasons.

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.