Welcome to JPN
Largest selection of Japanese ceramics by first-ranked artists

Ceramic Feature

Japanese-made porcelain
The title is Ironabeshima Karakusa Sakuramon Tezukuri Hyotan (色鍋島唐草桜文手造り瓢箪).

This is a vase created by Aoki Taeko.

Cherry blossom petals are elegantly painted on the window frame.
Traditional style of Imari ware.

It's necessary to check with the pottery studio to see if this piece is available.
Click the red "INQUIRE" link at the bottom right.

Hyotan
It refers to a gourd.
Being shaped like a gourd fruit is often preferred.
It has been believed to be inhabited by divine spirits.

Iro Nabeshima (色鍋島)
- A porcelain vividly colored in red, green, and yellow of Nabeshima ware-

It refers to the skill of making colored porcelain.
Red, green, and yellow , those three colors are mainly used.
Traditional Japanese style geometry design, flowers, historic sites and others.

Colored porcelain made in the Nabeshima kiln is generally called iro-Nabeshima style.
It was Nabeshima-Hanyo which was founded as a directly managed business for Saga-Nabeshima domain.
A wide variety of ceramics are made such as ironabehsima, sometsuke and seiji as a gift to the lord.
In other words, a special works does not concern profitability.

It's said that the baked pottery in Mt. Okawachi were one of the excellent one in the mid-Edo period.
It's still passed down as a hidden treasure even today.
Kosen-gama has a workshop in Okawachi-cho.

Aoki-san also preserves the technique and works hard to make ceramics that's suitable for today's life.