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Nabeshima Momijimon Gosun Kodai Sara (鍋島青磁紅葉文五寸高台皿)

This is a Nabeshima ware dish which Kawasoe-san has created.
All handmade.
Celadon ore which has been used since the Edo period.
Kawasoe-san works hard to recreate the time when Nabeshima style was started making.

Kodai-sara
Kodai means trimmig a high footring of dish.
It leads to a sense of elegance.
Back to the Edo period, it was presented to the shogun's family.
The inside of the dish is also deep and the shape looks lile Japanese mokuhai cup.

Nabeshima Seiji (鍋島青磁)
- A porcelain colored in blue green with mysterious beauty of Nabeshima ware-

It refers to the skill of making celadon using natural ore taken in Mt. Okawachi.
So that color is said to be as transparent as jade.

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.

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