Hasami

Hasami is the region that put porcelain on ordinary tables. Light, durable, and priced within reach. That thinking has held for four hundred years.

What sits here is the work of a maker splitting time between Hasami and Itoshima. The pure white surface is used as a canvas, and flowers are painted onto it. Square plates, bread plates, cake plates. The way the empty space is held is part of the picture, so food never gets in the way of it. They are painted to look their best with bread or cake on them.

What made Hasami's name is the kurawanka bowl, sold from boats: cheap, sturdy, and it turned porcelain from a luxury into everyday tableware. What is made now has the same character. Light, hard to chip, and fine in the dishwasher. Painting in cobalt under the glaze is sometsuke. For the history, read Hasami ware.