Imari ware is a generic name of porcelain produced in Hizen country (modern Saga and Nagasaki) around Arita (Arita-cho, Saga), northwestern Kyūshū. Arita's kilns were set up in the 17th c
Kanjiro Kawai 1890 - 1966 Kanjirou Kawai was a Kyoto-based potter within the folk tradition of Japanese and Korean ceramics and a key figure in Mingei (Japanese folk art movement). He was a long-ti
Shonzui generally refers to blue-and-white porcelain fired at folk kilns in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province, China, mainly during the late Ming Dynasty, particularly the Chongzhen period (1628–1644
Kosometsuke is a dyed porcelain that was burned in a folk kiln in Jingdezhen, Jiangxi, mainly around the end of the Ming dynasty and the Tenkei era (1621-27) in China, and is the name in Japan. Dyed p