SUPERIOR HANDCRAFTED
PORCELAIN FROM HIRADO KOSHO
Traditional & modern porcelains, fine china tea-ware, collectible porcelains, sake & tea ceremony wares, jewellery & home-interior accessories. Review the lists of innovative handmade porcelains at the subject links below.

Gray & Seddon reviews many exquisite artisan porcelains each year, yet the output from the prestigious HIRADO KOSHO KILN is always among the best in the world. Here we list a wide selection of the finest traditional and contemporary porcelain artwork originating from this most famous of the Mikawachi Kilns. All are handmade, highly original and creatively designed pieces. The tea-ware range includes many innovative blue-on-white and underglaze colour porcelains, which are functional as well as beautiful. This part of the site also extends to other porcelain listings such vases and other home-interior porcelains, specialist rice bowls, display & tableware plates. There are also listings of fine porcelains for the summer tea ceremony and dedicated sake world too. Each porcelain piece holds the official mark of the Hirado Kosho Kiln and is highly collectible. Thesenew G&S listings also provide opportunity for tea enthusiasts & fine porcelain collectors alike to acquire some of the very finest blue and white china still in production.

PORCELAIN TEAPOTS Hirado Kosho's teapot designs are well known in Japan. Their classic sometsuke wares are presented here, as well as more contemporary designs & new patterns. Here you can find western-style teapots, high quality porcelain kyusu and bow-handle teapots. All teapots listed can be specially made-to-order to matched with any other porcelain in the Hirado Kosho collection.

CHINA CUPS & MUGS Explore quite possibly the most extensive on-line collection of fine handmade porcelain tea-cups and mugs now available. The listings feature tall broad handle half-pint tea mugs as well as a great many standard 5oz (150cc) tea-cups. The collection includes familiar patterns such as karako, old turnip, and lesser-know flower & plant artwork too.

PORCELAIN YUNOMI View the most stylish blue-on-white Japanese tea-cups or yunomi here. The main Hirado Kosho patterns are listed but we have a few surprises too, with the revival of old patterns and a selection of newer yunomi.

TEA CEREMONY WARE The summer tea ceremony need cool themes, and so makes use of the coolest handmade porcelain ware. Designs and patterns have to be special and craefullt selected for their use in the ceremony tea. Hirado Kosho Kiln makes attractive porcelain tea-bowls as well as other ceremony accessories. G&S reviews a selection these items.

PLATES & DISHES The ultimate in sometsuke plate collecting has to be the larger karako-yaki, but there are many other patterns & styles to choose. Here we list some beautiful blue-and-white plates and dishes for practical table use, special serving purposes, fruit bowls, display plates, as well as special items applicable to the investor-collector.

SAKE WARE These pages list sakazuki or sake-cups, and serving bottles needed when drinking connoisseur sake. Porcelains here are traditional and make ideal gifts for those with a discerning palate for good regional sake.

RICE BOWLS Eating the world's most delicious rice from a carefully handcrafted porcelain bowl is one of the many pleasures of Japanese food. In this section we list an assortment of beautiful porcelain rice bowls; perfect with every meal!

VASES For collectors of contemporary porcelain vases these pages offer a wide choice of styles in blue-on-white ware.

HOME & INTERIOR Listed are figurines, specialist porcelain tiles, wall displays, fragrance and incense porcelain accoutrements, translucent china lamps and many more items for decoration and use around the home.