Japan had lived in relative isolation from the outside world. American gunboat diplomacy, instigated by Commodore Perry in 1853, opened up Japan for trade with the West. The Japanese did not wish to ...

It is satsuma, like the Japanese, but it was done in this country on Japanese porcelain blanks that would have been procured from Japan at a time when it was impossible to get them from Germany ...

Dated from the 1930s, this is an example of ceramics made by Kingozan and was manufactured in Kyoto, and is known as 'satsuma ware'. This is a type of Japanese earthenware porcelain - the best ...