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The title is Ironabeshima Ojumon Togaku (色鍋島桜樹文陶額).

This is a framed ceramic created by Aoki Taeko.

The cherry blossoms design by hand-painted.
Japanese togaku is painted ceramic board, and of cource it's baked.

The picture is long with more than 80 centimeters.
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Iro Nabeshima (色鍋島)
- A porcelain vividly colored in red, green, and yellow of Nabeshima ware-

It refers to the skill of making colored porcelain.
Red, green, and yellow , those three colors are mainly used.
Traditional Japanese style geometry design, flowers, historic sites and others.

Colored porcelain made in the Nabeshima kiln is generally called iro-Nabeshima style.
It was Nabeshima-Hanyo which was founded as a directly managed business for Saga-Nabeshima domain.
A wide variety of ceramics are made such as ironabehsima, sometsuke and seiji as a gift to the lord.
In other words, a special works does not concern profitability.

It's said that the baked pottery in Mt. Okawachi were one of the excellent one in the mid-Edo period.
It's still passed down as a hidden treasure even today.
Kosen-gama has a workshop in Okawachi-cho.

Aoki-san also preserves the technique and works hard to make ceramics that's suitable for today's life.