Title: Kakiemon
Content: Kakiemon Kakiemon is a term that generates some confusion, being the name of a family, one or more kilns, and a brightly-coloured overglaze style broadly imitating Chinese wares. The style originated with the family, whose kilns were the main producers of it, but other kilns also made it, and the Kakiemon kilns made other styles. Both the palette and style, and very probably the kiln, were in place by the 1680s. The style is a sub-type of what is called in the West Imari ware, the overglaze coloured variety of the broader grouping Arita ware, dominant in Japanese export porcelain

Title: Kakiemon
Content: usually of high quality, delicate and with asymmetric well-balanced designs. These were sparsely applied to emphasize the fine white porcelain background body known in Japan as "nigoshide" (milky white) which was used for the finest pieces. However, because manufacture of "nigoshide" is difficult due to hard contraction of the porcelain body during firing, the production was discontinued from the former part of the 18th century to mid-20th century. In this period, Sakaida Kakiemon produced normal 'akae' wares. Sakaida Kakiemon XII and XIII attempted to reproduce "nigoshide" and succeeded in 1953. It has continued to be produced since then. Pieces are

Title: Kakiemon
Content: types, stopped in the mid-18th century when China resumed export to Europe. Since both "Kakiemon" and Imari styles were already so popular among Europeans, Chinese export porcelain copied both styles. In 1971 the craft technique was designated an Important Intangible Cultural Property by the Japanese government; a double climbing kiln in Arita used for the firing of Kakiemon has also been designated a National Historic Site. Sakaida Kakiemon XIV (26 August 1934 – 15 June 2013) was designated a Living National Treasure by the government. His son Sakaida Kakiemon XV became the new head in February 2014. The decoration is

Title: Kakiemon
Content: after he perfected a design of twin persimmons ("kaki"), developing as well the distinctive palette of soft red, yellow, blue and turquoise green now associated with the Kakiemon style. The name "Kakiemon" is sometimes used as a generic term describing Arita wares or Imari wares made in the Arita factories using the characteristic "kakiemon" overglaze enamels and decorative styles. The Kakiemon kiln seems to have been established by the 1680s, when the decorating technique was also fully developed. The early history and ownership are not very clear, and at this period the real Kakiemon enterprise may have been a decorating

Title: Kakiemon
Content: the List of Historic Sites of Japan (Saga). "Kakiemon" porcelains have been produced by direct descendants. At the same time many other kilns around Arita produced wares in the same style, some using the "nigoshide" body. "Kakiemon" porcelain was exported from Japan into Europe via the Dutch East India Company, and beginning in the 1650s, through a variety of other avenues. King Augustus II the Strong of Poland and Mary II of England both owned examples. The earliest inventory to include Japanese porcelain in Europe was made at Burghley House in 1688; these included a standing elephant with its trunk

Question: What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
Answer: Porcelain