sometsuke　染付

KEY WORD :　art history / crafts

Blue-and-white ware. A white pottery with indigo patterns. On the surface of white pottery, mainly porcelain, designs are painted with cobalt oxide paint gosu 呉須, a coat of transparent glaze is applied and the vessel is fired at 1300-1350 c. Called qinghua (Jp:seika 青花), qinghua baici (Jp: seika hakuji 青花白磁) or youliqing (Jp: yuurisei 釉裏青) in China, it became popular in the Yuan dynasty, dominant in the Ming, and influenced ceramics in other Asian countries and Europe. In Japan, the first sometsuke were made in the Genna 元和 era (1615-24) in Arita 有田 by a Korean potter called Ri Sanpei 李参平 (?-1655). As Imari sometsuke *imariyaki 伊万里焼, it became very popular and was exported. The Nabeshima 鍋島 kiln made superior sometsuke. In the later Edo period, sometsuke porcelain was made in Kyoto and many sometsuke masters made copies of Chinese Ming dynasty pieces. In Seto 瀬戸, Katou Tamikichi 加藤民吉 (1771-1824) adapted Hizen 肥前 sometsuke techniques to make sometsuke porcelain comparable in quality to that of Imari.

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