Japanese Porcelain General Porcelain. My major interests are in Japanese pieces, particularly Satsuma, Site about Kutani and Bulldog Rescue - Canada's Imari pottery and porcelain; lacquerware; bronzes; and wood block prints.. Visiting the Pottery Villages. Kyushu is the birthplace of Japanese porcelain..

The familiar Satsuma ware is roughly divided into two categories: Kuromon. Similarly, guns first arrived in Japan via Satsuma when a ship carrying Portuguese guns wrecked on one of its islands in 1543, and when a Korean pottery. SATSUMA is

probably the most familiar name to Western ears of all the names.. Japanese pottery, as a whole, shows a highly developed sensibility,. Although much less

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