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Washizome Bokashikamon Koro (和紙染ぼかし花文香炉)
This is the Arita ware crafted by NAKAO, Hidezumi (中尾英純).
He soaked traditional papers into blue paint called gosu, and expressed the petals pattern.
Washizome-bokashi is the decorative skill obtained by controlling the shade and gets to gradation dyeing.
Hidezumi attaches clay to traditional papers soaked by the blue pigments and finishes work in the quality color.
Height : 8 cm
Diameter : 9.7 cm
He cuts water-absorbent Japanse washi paper to the proper size, place the paper on the bisque ware, and soak it with cobalt blue colour. Please enjoy the elegant overlapping patterns.