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Saga Prefectural Art Museum and Museum
An architecturally awarded building, holding the painter Okada Saburosuke and the province's porcelain.
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Kyushu Ceramic Museum
The largest systematic collection of Kyushu ceramics, tracing Arita porcelain unbroken from the 1600s to now.
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Arita Porcelain
Japanese porcelain began when a Korean potter found the right stone here in 1616; within decades it was shipping to Europe.
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Izumiyama Quarry
Four centuries of digging removed an entire mountain; the white cliff left behind records what the industry did to the land.
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Arita Uchiyama District
Two kilometres of kiln town, its alleys walled with tonbai - broken kiln brick and shards set in clay.
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Tozan Shrine
Torii, guardian lions and railings are all porcelain - a pottery town built even its shrine from its own material.
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Kakiemon Kiln
Its milk-white body and sparing use of colour were copied across Europe and shaped Meissen's own style.
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Imaemon Kiln
Hereditary enamellers to the Nabeshima lords, keeping a technique where ink drawn on the glaze burns away and leaves white.
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Okawachiyama, the Nabeshima Domain Kiln
To stop the technique leaking, the potters were gathered in a valley ringed by sheer rock mountains and controlled by a checkpoint, firing items for the clan lord and gifts for the shogun and other daimyo.
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Iro-Nabeshima Porcelain
Made as presentation and gift ware, never for sale, so nothing was compromised; red, yellow and green are layered over underglaze blue, and even the underside and foot ring follow a fixed standard.
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Karatsu Ware
Ranked third among tea wares after Raku and Hagi; its coarse clay and quick iron-drawn grasses were chosen for their plainness.
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Hizen Yoshida Ware
A district with no fixed house style, and lately one that works with outside designers rather than tradition.
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Ozaki Clay Dolls
Said to descend from Mongol prisoners of the 13th-century invasions; its dove whistles died out and were revived.
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Yumino Dolls
Large, strongly coloured clay dolls in the Hakata manner, kept going by a single workshop and its moulds.
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Tonbai Walls of Arita
Walls built from demolished kiln brick and rejected pots set in clay - industrial waste become a townscape.
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Arita Ceramic Fair
Four kilometres of stalls and half a million visitors - the whole district's output visible in one week.
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Imari Port District
Arita porcelain shipped from this port, which is why the world came to call it Imari instead.
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Climbing Kiln Sites of Arita
Chambered kilns stepped up the hillsides; the slope and the number of chambers decided the firing.
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Contemporary Arita
At its 400th anniversary the district began pairing kilns with foreign designers - a tradition deliberately updating itself.
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Karatsu Kilns and the Tataki Method
Clay compacted by beating with a paddle rather than thrown - a Korean method still in use here.
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Old Kilns of Hizen
The failed shards from these kilns date the styles - they carry more information than the finished pots.
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Arita Porcelain Park
A replica of the Zwinger, built by the Saxon elector who bought Arita porcelain by the shipload - the export destination made visible.