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Sometsuke Sakuramon O-bachi (染付桜文大鉢)

This is an Arita ware bowl which Hidezumi-san has created.
He shaped the bowl with throwing on a potter’s wheell and painted the petals pattern by hand.
"Sakura" is one of the flowers that represent Japan, so it's great as a gift in all seasons.
The bowl can be used for any purpose.

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.