Japanese pottery: Quick Facts

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Ceramic bowl repaired with kintsugi, featuring visible gold lines highlighting cracks and breaks in the light brown surface.

Imari ware plate

Pottery from the Jōmon period

Mikawachi porcelain

samurai in full armour

Japanese side dish

Stoneware dish with brush-painted sugarcane pattern by Hamada Shōji, after 1930; in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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