kakiemon

Japanese white-body porcelain made in western Kyushu, fashionable in the West from the 1620s and again in the 1990s. It is made at the Nangawara kiln in Arita by a line of potters established by Sakaida Kakiemon I (1599-1666).

Kakiemon ware has decorations in red, green, blue, and black, usually birds or flowers, modelled on Chinese porcelain of the 17th century. It is one of several types of porcelain from the Arita area, near Nagasaki. High-quality copies are now made by the 13th-generation Kakiemon, and lesser copies are made by industrial companies throughout the region.