Nabeshima Sake Cups

Ceramics

Craft Company: Hataman Touen

ORIGIN: Imari, Saga Prefecture
SIZE: Φ50 x H53 mm
MATERIAL: Porcelain stone

A graceful beauty of Nabeshima

Morning glories, rhododendrons, cotton roses, peaches, and tachibana (a citrus fruit native to Japan) – five designs long beloved as symbols of beauty and good fortune – are depicted together with a traditional kushi-me (comb) pattern to present a graceful beauty. The intrinsic beauty of Nabeshima is brought to life by the exquisite brushwork of the craftsmen.

Related Contents

Hataman Touen

Ceramics

CRAFT COMPANY

VOL.32

READ

INSIGHT

Preface: “Beautiful Crafts, Rooted in the Land”

Editor's Column “The Path of Japanese Crafts” Part1: Japanese Aesthetic Sense VOL.1

Japanese crafts are beautiful. Sometsuke plates drawn with gosu pigment, bowls made up of many layers of lacquer, light-colored textiles dyed with the natural kusaki-zome technique, and one-of-a-kind yakishime style vases with unpredictable yohen effects that emerge during firing. These crafts are not only beautiful in form and design, but also function as tools, each embedded with the aesthetic s...

RESOURCE

Kushime Kodai
- Technique
Decoration of the kodai, the foot of the ceramic, with a kushi-me (comb pattern) in blue and white, a motif traditionally seen in Nabeshima works.
Iro Nabeshima (Colored Nabeshima)
- Generic term
A type of Nabeshima ware characterized by elegant and subdued colors, with delicate patterns painted in indigo blue that are overglazed with red, yellow, and green designs.
Nabeshima ware
- Generic term
A generic term for the high-quality porcelain produced in kilns operated by the Nabeshima clan between the 17th and 19th centuries. At that time it was manufactured as gifts for the shogun and feudal lords because of its outstanding quality and artistry. Its distinctive original style, which has been carried on to this day, is known simply as Nabeshima style, and includes “Iro Nabeshima” (colored Nabeshima), “Nabeshima sometsuke” (blue-and-white Nabeshima), “Ai Nabeshima” (Indigo Nabeshima), and “Nabeshima celadon.”

KOGEI STANDARD Japanese Crafts Online Media

New Products

KOGEI Topics

Editor's Column “The Path of Japanese Crafts” Part2: Modern Society and Kogei

Exhibition • Event Report

Editor's Column "Craft Production Regions"

Featured Exhibitions & Events

The Art of Appreciating Tea Bowls

Special Column “Toward the Revitalization of Wajima Lacquerware”

VOICE

KOGEI & Me

Editor's Column “The Path of Japanese Crafts” Part1: Japanese Aesthetic Sense

Editor's Note

KOGEI STANDARD
JAPANESE CRAFTS ONLINE MEDIA

InsightKogei Articles

Latest Articles

“Time & Style New Products 2025” Time & Style Launched a New Collection in Japan

The Grand Opening of the “Bizen City Museum of Art”

What is Traditional Craft?

“NOUSAKU / NS by NOUSAKU” Opens at Tokyo Midtown

Exhibition Information

Unsung Heroes: Familial Bonds and the Raku Legacy

Yoko ICHIKAWA: Small Knots

Hisayo Kurohata: Pottery

Hagi 2025: Tori Yoshino Exhibition

Articles by Series

New Products

KOGEI Topics

Editor's Column “The Path of Japanese Crafts” Part2: Modern Society and Kogei

Nabeshima Sake Cups

A graceful beauty of Nabeshima

White Karatsu Four-sided Tea Bowl

Tanba Rakkyo Sake Flask

Moon Jar with Small Flowers

Tea Bowl, Yakushiji Temple Landscape

Hataman Touen

Preface: “Beautiful Crafts, Rooted in the Land”

KOGEI STANDARD JAPANESE CRAFTS ONLINE MEDIA

Latest Articles

Exhibition Information

Unsung Heroes: Familial Bonds and the Raku Legacy

Yoko ICHIKAWA: Small Knots

Hisayo Kurohata: Pottery

Hagi 2025: Tori Yoshino Exhibition

Articles by Series

New Products

KOGEI Topics

Editor's Column “The Path of Japanese Crafts” Part2: Modern Society and Kogei

A graceful beauty of Nabeshima

Hataman Touen

KOGEI STANDARD
JAPANESE CRAFTS ONLINE MEDIA