Maple Leaf in Arita Porcelain
Shaped like a Japanese maple leaf, this plate comes from Arita—the birthplace of Japanese porcelain, where the craft has continued since the early 1600s. The leaf form is precise, its edges crisp, its white body characteristic of Arita’s refined firing tradition.
Shaped by Arita’s Legacy: This piece also comes from Arita ware, Japan’s first porcelain tradition. Prized for its luminous white body and refined hand-painted details, embodying the harmony of precision and quiet beauty.
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Silver Front, Vermilion Reverse
Master artisan Nobuyasu Suginaka applied two distinct finishes: Iro-urushitsugi in vivid vermilion on the front, and Gintsugi with pure silver on the reverse. Each side required its own sequence of urushi layering and curing. The contrast—warm red against cool silver—was a deliberate artistic choice, not merely a technical one.
A Plate with Two Faces
Turn this plate over and it becomes a different object. The vermilion side carries the energy of lacquer’s warmest pigment; the silver side offers quiet restraint. In urushi tradition, this kind of dual expression demonstrates the material’s range—the same natural lacquer producing radically different moods depending on the artisan’s intent.
