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Winter Collection

Celebrate the winter season with an array of warm and elegant Japanese tableware items from earthenware donabe clay pots to lustrous lacquerware bowls and trays. Spend time with family and friends around a welcoming winter table setting, and enjoy cozy daily meals and holiday festivities together.

Colors with Rich Textures

Gold, silver, red and white are warm base colors that are fitting for the cold season. Add earthenware pots and teaware items to enhance your winter enjoyment. Jubako Bento boxes and lacquerware bowls designed with intricate Japanese patterns are also wonderful items that will decorate your table for winter festivities, especially New Year celebrations.

Grace your table with items from our winter collection and give your table top a refined and sophisticated look for the winter season.

Sometsuke

“Sometsuke" is an underglaze technique in which a white porcelain base is painted with a dark blue pigment called “Gosu" and then covered with a transparent glaze. The blue color slightly fuses into the glaze, giving it a beautiful indigo-dyed texture, which is particularly noticeable in the style of Early Imari, which was inherited by the 14th generation of Yi Sam-Pyeong, the founder of Arita Ware.

Kakiemon

The Kakiemon style refers to the “Aka-E” red painting in Arita Ware, founded by Sakai Kakiemon in the 1640s. The red overglaze painting is exquisitely balanced without filling the entire surface, thus highlighting the beauty of Arita's white porcelain.

Nabeshima

The Nabeshima style is often referred to as Nabeshima Ware, independent of the Arita Ware category. It is characterized by the use of pale blue and yellow colors , and even the underside is decorated so that it is beautiful from all angles. Because of its history of development as a decorative plate more as an art piece than a practical product, and because it was a gift only for the Shogun's family (in government former days), it had not been seen outside of Japan until recent years.

Ko-Imari

Ko-Imari is a representative gorgeous design of Arita Ware that harmonizes the whiteness of white porcelain with ten more colors and gilding. It was first made to resemble Jingdezhen when China was unable to export it, which was popular in Europe, due to civil war. It was called Imari Ware because it was shipped from the port of Imari, but since Imari Ware already existed in other production area, it was called Ko-Imari in Japan to distinguish it from the Imari Ware.

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