Glossary
Oribe (Mino ware)
Oribe (Mino ware) is a bold style of Mino ware created in the Momoyama period, associated with tea master Furuta Oribe. Oribe ware is known for vivid copper-green glaze, asymmetric...
Oribe (Mino ware)
Oribe (Mino ware) is a bold style of Mino ware created in the Momoyama period, associated with tea master Furuta Oribe. Oribe ware is known for vivid copper-green glaze, asymmetric...
Kodai (foot ring)
Kodai is the ring-shaped foot on the underside of a japanese ceramic piece. The kodai lifts the piece off the surface, supports it when hot liquids are poured, and is...
Kodai (foot ring)
Kodai is the ring-shaped foot on the underside of a japanese ceramic piece. The kodai lifts the piece off the surface, supports it when hot liquids are poured, and is...
Gosu (cobalt blue pigment)
Gosu (cobalt blue pigment) is the cobalt-based blue pigment used in sometsuke (blue-and-white) underglaze decoration on japanese porcelain. Gosu was originally imported from China and later produced domestically, enabling the...
Gosu (cobalt blue pigment)
Gosu (cobalt blue pigment) is the cobalt-based blue pigment used in sometsuke (blue-and-white) underglaze decoration on japanese porcelain. Gosu was originally imported from China and later produced domestically, enabling the...
Tatara-zukuri (slab building)
Tatara-zukuri (slab building) is a Japanese ceramic technique in which slabs of uniform clay are cut and assembled into forms. Tatara-zukuri enables sharp angles and flat surfaces that wheel throwing...
Tatara-zukuri (slab building)
Tatara-zukuri (slab building) is a Japanese ceramic technique in which slabs of uniform clay are cut and assembled into forms. Tatara-zukuri enables sharp angles and flat surfaces that wheel throwing...
Sometsuke (blue and white porcelain)
Sometsuke refers to celadon-white porcelain decorated with cobalt patterns on a white porcelain body, then coated with a transparent glaze and fired. Representative of Arita and Hasami ware, this technique...
Sometsuke (blue and white porcelain)
Sometsuke refers to celadon-white porcelain decorated with cobalt patterns on a white porcelain body, then coated with a transparent glaze and fired. Representative of Arita and Hasami ware, this technique...
Shita-etsuke (underglaze decoration)
Underglaze decoration is a technique in which a design is painted on an unglazed, bisque-fired ceramic body before glaze is applied. The most representative example is sometsuke (blue and white...
Shita-etsuke (underglaze decoration)
Underglaze decoration is a technique in which a design is painted on an unglazed, bisque-fired ceramic body before glaze is applied. The most representative example is sometsuke (blue and white...