Satsuma ware

A Satsuma ware bowl from the Meiji or Taishō period (19th-early 20th century)

A modern Satsuma ware pictorial button depicting a rooster.

Satsuma ware (薩摩焼 satsuma-yaki), sometimes referred to as "Satsuma porcelain,"^{[citation needed]} is a type of Japanese earthenware pottery. It originated in the late 16th century, during the Azuchi-Momoyama period, and is still produced today. Although the term can be used to describe a variety of types of pottery, the best known type of Satsuma ware has a soft, ivory-colored, crackled glaze with elaborate polychrome and gold decorations.^{[citation needed]}

Satsuma ware originated when the Shimazu of the Satsuma domain in southern Kyūshū relocated skilled Korean potters after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Japanese Invasions of Korea to establish a local pottery industry.^[1][2] Later, after display at an international exhibition in Paris in 1867, it proved popular as an export to Europe.

References

Further reading

• Takeshi, Nagatake (1979). Japanese ceramics from the Tanakamaru collection. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

External links

• Satsuma Ware, from Traditional Crafts of Japan

v t e Styles of Japanese pottery and porcelain Agano Bizen Hagi Haji Haniwa Imari Jōmon Pottery (Dogū) Kakiemon Kamuiyaki Karatsu Kutani Mino (also Oribe) Nerikomi Onda Ōtani Raku Ryumonji Satsuma Seto Shigaraki Shino Sōma Sue Takatori Tamba Tobe Tokoname Yokkaichi-Banko See also: Kintsugi Shino (glaze) Tenmoku