page_title: Satsuma ware
section_title: Types
hierarchical_section_title: Satsuma ware / Types
caption_attribution_description: English: Exhibit in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan. This artwork is old enough so that it is in the public domain.
context_page_description: Satsuma ware is a type of Japanese pottery originally from Satsuma Province, southern Kyūshū. Today, it can be divided into two distinct categories: the original plain dark clay early Satsuma made in Satsuma from around 1600, and the elaborately decorated export Satsuma ivory-bodied pieces which began to be produced in the nineteenth century in various Japanese cities. By adapting their gilded polychromatic enamel overglaze designs to appeal to the tastes of western consumers, manufacturers of the latter made Satsuma ware one of the most recognized and profitable export products of the Meiji period.
context_section_description: In addition to the nishikide and export ware types, there are various categories of Satsuma ware, each with their own distinct aesthetic.
  Shiro Satsuma: white-glazed; originally only for use within daimyō's household
  Kuro Satsuma: black-bodied with dark overglaze
  Jakatsu: blue, yellow and black glazes run together with white overglaze
  Sunkoroku Satsuma: older pieces modeled on the Sawankhalok ceramics of thirteenth-century Thailand, decorated with brown geometrical designs
  Mishima Satsuma: clay with light bluish-grey glaze, with inlaid or impressed geometric patterning filled with white slip overglaze
  Blue-and-white Satsuma: produced in the first decade of the nineteenth century; large pieces with Chinese-inspired designs, often landscapes
  Gosu blue Satsuma: produced in limited quantity in Kyoto in the mid-nineteenth century; pieces with over- or under-glaze containing minerals such as cobalt or asbolite, which gives a bluish hue and a more vivid quality to painted images
caption: White glaze Satsuma tea bowl in shape of lotus leaf, Edo period, 17th century
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