Seto and Mino ceramics
An inspired outpouring of colorfully glazed and eccentrically shaped ceramics from Mino was one of the glories of the Momoyama period (1568-1615), remembered as a golden age for all the arts in Japan. Throughout the Edo period (1615-1868), Seto set the standard for fine glazed pottery to such an extent that the term setomono (Seto things) became a synonym for "ceramics." Today Seto and Mino continue to flourish. The former clusters of villages have grown into small
Print Book, English, ©1992
Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution ; Distributed by University of Hawaii Press, Washington, D.C., Honolulu, ©1992