Overglaze painting refers to the process of attaching a painting to a piece that has been honyaki fired and then firing it again at a lower heat. Since underglaze painting, or underglaze painting, is limited to high-fired paints, the purpose of overglaze painting is to use low-fired paints in order to obtain a wide variety of colors. The overglaze painting of Chinese porcelain seems to have originated in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. In the Song Dynasty, rough painting in three colors (red, yellow, and green) was first used, followed by five-color painting in the Ming Dynasty, and then powder painting in the Qing Dynasty. In Japan, overglaze enamels were first produced by Kakiemon in Hizen (Saga Prefecture), followed by Nisei in Kyoto, Koga (Ishikawa Prefecture) Ko-kutani, and others.
