American attitudes toward porcelain have long been misguided. Often perceived as fragile, porcelain dinnerware has consequently been relegated to formal occasions. Because it is fired at exceptionally ...

The old est porcelain of Japan is that known as Hizen ware, into which province the manufacture was introduced from China in 1513, and examples of this variety are frequently marked with sprays or ...

the texture and translucence of the porcelain suggests there's something more complex going on here. The secret to her unique ceramics is an extraordinary Japanese technique called "nerikomi." ...

Presenting a new men’s brand of Japanese traditional technology and ... maintain traditions and innovate for over 200 years, Arita Porcelain Lab Co., Ltd. (called Arita Porcelain Lab below ...

Japan first began producing porcelain during the early 17th century in Hizen Province, now the city of Arita in Saga Prefecture. Techniques from Korea were used with aesthetics influenced by ...

An Arita city webpage tells us it was in 1616 that a forcibly relocated Korean farmer, Yi Sam-pyeong, discovered the white clay kaolin and then fired Japan's first porcelain. Other scholars have ...

Simply sign up to the Japanese business & finance myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. A Japanese company with more than two centuries of history in ceramic art and fine porcelain ...

And so is a sense of time, that interplay between old and new. Just as is cultural identity, for is this work Chinese, as we assume of most blue and white porcelain? Japanese, as the reminiscence of ...