Takatori ware

As Takatori pottery (Japanese高 取 焼, Takatori -yaki ) is called a ceramic produced in the Japanese prefecture of Fukuoka.

The roots of this pottery date back to the last years of the 16th century, when the Japanese feudal lord ( daimyo ) Kuroda Yoshitaka and his son Nagamasa during the operations performed under Toyotomi Hideyoshi invasion of Korea (see Imjin War) on the Korean ceramist Palsan (八 山) were attentive, settled him and his family in the province of Chikuzen at the foot of Mount Takatori (鹰 取 山) and his Japanese name Takatori Hachizō (高 取 八 蔵) zuwiesen. The tea master Kobori Enshū (1579-1647), who found great pleasure in the tea cups, contributed to the further development of forms and glazes as well as the distribution of the name in considerably.

In the course of multiple transfers during the 17th and 18th century it came to splitting into a series of workshops. With the collapse of the Tokugawa rule and the abolition of feudal domains ( 1871), the potters lost the patronage of the house Kuroda, which is why many give up their profession. In the 20th century other workshops took up the production in Takatori style. During the 1950s, also descendants of the Takatori family contributed to the revival of the tradition.

Best known are today in Fukuoka ( Miraku workshop ) and Tsuzumi Koishiwara ( Soke workshop ) produced Takatori ceramics.