Ko-kutani

Colored porcelain representing Japan.
The name Kutani ware comes from the fact that the place where it was first fired was Kutani Village, Enuma District, Kaga Province (currently the remote part of Yamanaka Onsen, Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture).
It is characterized by a heavy painterly overlay using Japanese paints called Kutani Gosai (green, yellow, red, purple, and navy blue), which are layered thickly on solid blue-blue lines (吾須/Gosu).

Toshitsune Maeda, the third lord of the Kaga domain, is known as a great ruler who changed the policy of the Takeharu Kaga domain into a cultural Kaga domain.
At that time, Kaga flourished as a place for exchange among the leading cultural figures of the day.
It began when Saijiro Goto, a potter from the Meireki era in the early Edo period, learned how to make pottery in Arita and fired it in Kutani Village.
Items made during this period are called ``Ko-Kutani.''
Among the colored porcelain made in Japan since the 17th century, Ko-Kutani has been highly praised, along with Arita's Kakiemon, Ko-Imari, Ironabeshima, and Kyoto's Ninsei.
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