Peony Arabesque Patterned Matcha Bowl MAKER_Hibino Ceramic and shoji screens and ranma

and shoji screens and ranma (transoms) with geometric patterns are made in many parts of Japan

This unique sake carafe is elegantly adorned with Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa

This is a two-tiered stacked jubako bento box made of Aizu lacquerware

and elegant designs

Peony Arabesque Patterned Matcha Bowl MAKER_Hibino Ceramic and shoji screens and ranmaThis finely detailed blue and white matcha bowl is the masterwork of artist Satomi Toshitaka. Using gosuan indigo pigment central to the art of sometsukehe applies his expert touch with a brush as fine as a single hair onto the translucent white canvas of Mikawachi ware. The result is a vessel that exudes a beguiling sense of tradition and calm. Satomi employs the celebrated sometsuke underglaze method in crafting this matcha bowl. On a bisqued base,