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Made in Osaka Prefecture near Minoo waterfall.  Originally started by Matsuda Kizan I.  In a bright red glaze, sometimes with red or black, inspired by the red Japanese maple leaves (momiji) in the area.

​Matsuda Isao (Matsuda Kizan II), Minoh (Minoo) ware 箕面焼, from store near Minoh falls in Osaka, Japan.  Maker's mark on base.

Opened by Matsuda Shiyo, Minoh Pottery Pottery is a five-minute walk down Takimichi from Hankyu Minoh Station. The interior, decorated with deep crimson pottery, is reminiscent of the maple leaves of Mount Minoh in deep autumn. The pottery was opened in 1921 by a woman named Matsuda Shiyo, who wanted to express the beautiful scenery of Mount Minoh in her pottery. She took the pottery name Kizan. It is said to be extremely difficult to express the color red in pottery, but after many years of hard work, she has succeeded in expressing the landscape of Mount Minoh, with its overlapping autumn leaves, in red and white.
Fast forward to 1958, and Isao, a classmate of Etsuko, whose grandmother was the first Minoyama, began his training at the age of 18, determined to preserve the techniques of Mino ware. He married Etsuko at the age of 20 and took the surname Matsuda. The two have been together for over 60 years. As the second generation Minoyama, he inherited the techniques of the first and sought to develop them further. In contrast to the first generation, who captured a landscape, he succeeded in depicting a single bright red autumn leaf.
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​Minoh pottery 箕面焼
When the Matsuda Kizan (Matsuda Shiyo 1889-1961) visited Minoh in the northern part of Osaka Prefecture in 1921, she was shown the autumn leaves of the area, and wondered how she could express these vivid vermilion colors in ceramics. After repeated trial and error, she completed a Raku-ware-style work of marbled red glaze, which was named Minoh-ware by Kobayashi Ichizo at her first solo exhibition at Hankyu Department Store in 1937, and is the origin of its name.
Since then, the second generation of Matsuda Kizan has inherited that traditional technique (the second generation’s new work is not marbled, but has developed into being dark red all over.)
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See also:
Raku pottery

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Minoh ware

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