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Konasubi (small eggplant)Chukoh specialty. Kinkasan tea caddy, Seto tenmoku hand. This small tea caddy has a glaze of am...

Kotou-yakiKoto-Yaki was the domain kiln of the Marquis Ii of Hikone in Omi Province (Hikone City, Shiga Prefecture). It ...

Founder of Kutani ware in Kaga (Ishikawa Prefecture). He was the younger brother of Ichienemon, the eighth generation of...

Keita GotohBusinessman, born in 1882 (Meiji 15) to the Kobayashi family in Aoki Village near Bessho Hot Springs in Ogata...

GotoChungking specialties. Kuniyaki tea caddy, Satsuma ware. It is also known as "Yado no ume" (plum blossoms at an inn)...

Trowel is used in wheel-thrown molding. The first is to press down strongly on the bottom of large vessels during wheel ...

A type of soft porcelain that has been made in England since ancient times. It is a type of porcelain between hard porce...

Since phosphoric acid content in the glaze causes emulsion turbidity, bone ash containing large amounts of phosphate lim...

Kotakatori (Old Takatori)Ko-Takatori is an elegant pottery from Chikuzen Province (Fukuoka Prefecture). Kotakatori ware ...

KosometsukeThere are two theories about what is called kosozome or kosometsuke. One is that kosozome refers to kotozuke,...

Gosu Gombei is said to have helped Sakaida Kakiemon of Minamikawara, Hizen (Magokawa, Nishi-Arita-cho, Nishi-Matsuura-gu...

Gosu Akae (Gosu red painting)Also called akae-gosu. A bold design of mainly reddish green on a dyed or white porcelain b...