Kutani yaki ware Kohakubai Shoryu Fukuda Japanese Sake cup and Sake bottle set

Kutani yaki ware Kohakubai Shoryu Fukuda Japanese Sake cup and Sake bottle set

The posture and color is very beautiful
Kutani-yaki(ware) is well known as one of the production centers of Japanese pottery.

**ROMANTIC HISTORY OF 350 YEARS SUPPORTED BY KUTANIYAKI**

Ko-Kutani of early stage progressed under the support of the Daishoji clan in 1655.
After the discovery of potter’s clay at amine near kutani village,Saijiro Goto was sent to Arita in Kyushu district to master ceramics and brought back the techniques. Though the Ko-Kutani kilns developed their bold and lovely style,they disappeared suddenly in about 1700.
The cayse of the decline is still unknown.

Then the Kasugayama kiln opend at Kanazawa under the control of Kaga clan about eighty years after the close of the Ko-Kutani kiln.
And here starts the period of Restored Kutani.
A lot of kilns were built such as Mokubei kiln the Yoshida-ya Kiln, developing each special style.

In the Meiji period, Shoza Kutani developed his own style which became popular for it’s painting of Saishiki-kinrande with all styles putting together and the works of his appren-tices were exported to get a high position as Industrial Arts of kutani.