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Benizome Hanafuchi Baramon Kabin (紅染花渕薔薇文花瓶)

This is an Arita ware vase where Shomura-san has created.
The rose flower is designed as it goes well with crimson color.
It's a relatively tall flower vase, a wide range of flowers can be arranged.
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Benizome (紅染)
One baseball player asked Shomura-san for production of a retirement gift,
then he tried to make the original color that intensely suits the meaning of regeneration.
He finally accomplished the "benizome" dyeing.
Fantastic hue has comes out with glazes which is melted together.

Akae-machi (赤絵町)
There is the district called Akae-machi along the street passing through Arita-cho.
Here, manual industry business specialized in overglaze were gathered in the Edo era.
So many overglaze enamel porcelains have been long making.
The Bankogamashoken kiln was established in 1884, and had named from the first potter's Kenkichi.
It stands near the Kakiemon-gama which is one of the most well-known pottery in Japan.