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Sometsuke Kurenaibotanborimonyo Kabin (染付紅牡丹彫文様花瓶）

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

Sometsuke which is the common ceramic in Arita ware as a blue-and-white porcelain.
Ryuzumi-san uses the technique of underglaze vermilion paint (beni) In this case.
A peony flower pattern is carved and it seems to emerge.

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.