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Sometsuke Sanshokusai Takara Sakurabori Shippomonyo Kabin (染付三色彩宝桜彫七宝文様花瓶）

This is an Arita ware vase which Ryuzumi-san has created.

Sanshokusai means using three colors for painitng.
Drawing lines with black colored paint and paintiing in the lines by thick brush with red and blue paints.

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.