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Ironabeshima Kanibotanmon Gosun Kodai Sara (色鍋島蟹牡丹文五寸高台皿)

This is a Nabeshima ware dish which Kawasoe-san has created.
He used the traditional technique and painted the peony picture.
Kawasoe-san works hard to recreate the time when Iro-nabe style was started making.

Kodai-sara
Kodai means trimmig a high footring of dish.
It leads to a sense of elegance.
Back to the Edo period, it was presented to the shogun's family.
The inside of the dish is also deep and the shape looks lile Japanese mokuhai cup.

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.

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