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Benizome Hanaike Hono (紅染彫壷)

This is an Arita ware jar which Shomura-san has created.
After trial and error, a kind of original color was achieved by kiln effects.
It's normal as a Japanese pottery jar for size.
It's also good to display it on the table.
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Benizome (紅染)
One baseball player asked Shomura-san for production of a retirement gift,
then he tried to make the original color that intensely suits the meaning of regeneration.
He finally accomplished the "benizome" dyeing.
Fantastic hue has comes out with glazes which is melted together.

Akae-machi (赤絵町)
There is the district called Akae-machi along the street passing through Arita-cho.
Here, manual industry business specialized in overglaze were gathered in the Edo era.
So many overglaze enamel porcelains have been long making.
The Bankogamashoken kiln was established in 1884, and had named from the first potter's Kenkichi.
It stands near the Kakiemon-gama which is one of the most well-known pottery in Japan.