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A CHRONOLOGY of RELEVANT EVENTS October 2020 A CHRONOLOGY OF RELEVANT EVENTS october 2020 The history of Japan, and thus of Satsuma ceramics, is complex and includes many events. A chronology in which all these events are described in their order of occurrence over time is therefore useful. From the Canadian collector mr. John Henley, specialized in Noritake and Nippon ware, we received permission to put such a chronology on our website. We are pleased with his contribution, which, however extensive, can be seen as a starting document. After all, the history of Japan and Satsuma ceramics has many events worth mentioning. An update will therefore be made on a regular basis. For more documents on Japanese ceramics: www.johnhenley.academia.edu Japanese Year Significant Historical Artists, kilns and Technology and Expositions and Year and Industry Events companies Design Fairs General Information Keicho 3 1598 When Shiomi Hideyoshi Earliest Satsuma, ordered the end of based on Korean hostilities in Korea, model, red or black Shimazau Yosihiro, the clay covered with daimyo of Satsuma, transparent glaze returned to Japan with w/o decoration. 14-20 Korean potters. (Kuro-Satsuma) Genwa 3 1617 In the early 1600’s, Korean potters Hirata Donin makes the produce white first Japanese cloisonne. earthenware. (Shiro-Satsuma) Mid Nonomura Ninsei (circa 17th 1646-94) developed the Century technique of Nishikite decoration – polychrome overglaze and gold applied to light coloured clay covered with “crackles”. Kampo 3 1743 Awataguchi, Kiyomizu Ogata Kenzan Kokiyomizu tri- Became known as and Otowa, with 16 (1663-1743) dies. coloured (blue, Awata ware. climbing kilns were the green, gold) kiln centres for Kyoto. decorative ware Later named Gojozaka. established. Produced by Kinkozan, Iwakura and Hozan for royalty. Late Okuda Eisen (1753- Process adopted by 18th 1811) produced Gojozaka kilns. Century porcelain for first time in Kyoto. Late Kiyomizu Rokubei (1738- Sharing of Produced tea wares 18th 1799), Kinkodo advanced (both Century Kamesuke (1765-1837), techniques of maccha and Aoki Mokubei (1767- Kyoto ware to sencha), food 1833), Nin’ami Dohachi various parts of and other utensils. (1783-1855), Eiraku Japan. Hozen (1795-1854) et al, turned to reviving traditional Chinese and Japanese wares by combining their own unique creativity. Temmei 7 1787 Two Satsuma potters, New designs, Hoshiyama Chiubei and colours and Kawa Yahoro, do study techniques, highly tour of to update skills to detailed with full compete with multi- colour palette and coloured Imari porcelain thickly applied gold produced in Arita. developed. Kyowa 1 1801 16 potters in Seto, including Kato Tozaemon, switch to making porcelain. Kyowa 3 1803 Kato Tozaemon is sponsored by Owari clan to construct a round kiln for firing blue underglaze porcelains (sometsuke). Bunka 4 1807 Bunka 12 1814 Porcelain firing begins in Kameyama, Nagasaki around this time. Bunsei 2 1819 Shubei Kato I (1819/1900) Bunsei 6 1823 Kinkozan Sobei VI, born in Kyoto Bensei 11 1828 Most of Uchiyama is destroyed in the Great Arita Fire. Tempo 2 1831 Masuyoshi Kawamoto I (1831/1907) Tempo 4 1833 Yatsushiro Fukagawa Eizaemon (1833/1889) Tempo 6 1835 Miyamotoya Uemon Senjuka Born in resumes operating kilns 1835 (1835 ~ 2) of Kutani Yoshidaya. in Satsuma Naeshiro River, Japan. Tempo 10 1839 Start of Early period of Morimura Japanese cloisonne when Ichizaemon born in Kaji Tsunekichi reinvents Kyobashi, Tokyo the process. (Ichitaro) Tempo 12 1841 Kutani Shozo begins painting porcelain in Terai, Ishikawa Prefecture. Tempo 13 1842 Miyagawa Kozan I born (6 JAN) given name - Toranosuke Tempo 14 1843 Okura Magobei (03/08/1843) born Koka 1 1844 Kawahara Noritatsu, given name Tokudachi. (1844/1914) Kaei 1 1848 Shubei Kato II (1848/1903) Kaei 3 1850 Kozan studies painting with Nanga painter Chokian Giryo. Kaji Tsunekichi becomes first hired closinne artist of the daimyo of Owari. Kaei 4 1851 Makuzu Chozo (Kozan’s Receives art London World's 1st father) establishes kiln, names – Makuzu international Makuzugahara (Kyoto). and Kozan. Expo (Crystal Palace) Kaei 5 1852 Masataro Karata Birth of the Taro born in architect Gaudí Kagoshima. Masuyoshi Kawamoto II (1852/1918) Kaei 6 1853 Commodore Matthew Takeura Miura I Great Industrial Outbreak of Crimean Perry arrives in Japan. (1853/1915) Exposition in War (1853/1856). Kaji Tsunekichi takes on Dublin – first time The New York his first pupil, Yoshimura “any” presentation World's Fair, Taiji. of Japanese (Japan does not objects of art by participate) European collectors. Kaei 7 1854 Treaty of Tokai and Nankai Kanagawa with earthquakes. USA and UK & others shortly after. Ends 215 years of isolation. Ansei 2 1855 Paris World Expo Ansei 3 1856 Okura Magobei goes to Enji Nishiura V Townsend Harris Udagawa-cho, Shiba, (1856/1914) first US Consul Tokyo to study under General. Uchinoya Yaheiji (spends 7 years). Kaji Tsunekichi takes on his second pupil, Hayashi Shogoro. Ansei 4 1857 The Shimazu clan was South Kensington instrumental in the Museum development of founded. inexpensive Western paints around this time, and there are testimonies to the success of the industrial museum in London and the four-year period of the Emigration Administration. Ansei 5 1858 Mitsui-gumi German Doctor U.S.-Japan amity, commissioned Kato Siebold visited trade treaty Kanesuke of Seto to Japan. Five Nations Treaty make porcelain for export of 1859- UK, USA, – provides imported France, Russia & porcelain samples. (80 Netherlands follow. pieces of Western porcelain as models for Japanese export ceramics) Ansei 6 1859 Miyagawa Hanzan Sir Rutherford Yokohama, born. Given name Alcock 1st UK Hakodate and – Hannosuke or ambassador. Nagasaki open their Hanzan Morimura and ports Okura Magobei meet in Yokohama. Manen 1860 Kozan takes over family Yoshiji Watano Mino potter The Civil War in the business (age 18), shortly (1860/1934) Nishiura Enji III United States began after death of Chozo and begins to supply in 1861. (continues his elder brother Chohei. export porcelains until 1865) to shops in In 1860/61, Tsukamoto Yokohama. Kaisuke studies Tashiro cloisonne making under Monzaemon Hayashi Shogoro. secures rights to export pottery from Arita. Bunkyu 1 1861 Nagoya’s Kadokichi places an order for export coffee cups with a representative of Seto ware potters. Hayashi Kodenji I opens a cloisonne factory. Bunkyu 2 1862 Shimazu family exhibit Nishiki A Satsuma samurai Satsuma wares for first Kwangshan, kills and time in the West at Rokuyaki, Tanari, injures 4 British London International Kaizan are citizens. Exposition. (Followed by overseas at the equally successful London World's Victor Hugo exhibitions in Paris Fair. publishes “Les (1867), Vienna (1873) Misérables". and Philadelphia Mr. and Mrs. Centenial (1876). Dussault, who will A.L. Liberty opens be exhibiting about Japanese Second International 614 works of warehouse at Exhibition (South porcelain, and Farmers & Rogers, Kensington) includes have a store that London items from Sir Rutherford specializes in Alcock’s collection of Japanese antiques Japanese arts and crafts. in Paris, as well as in China. Mitsui-gumi team transferred to Kato Kensuke of Seto to manufacture porcelain. Bunkyu 3 1863 Hayashi Kodenji I sells Morimura-gumi Lincoln's Gettysburg cloisonne to Europeans. once again Address requests porcelain (Emancipation samples from Seto Proclamation) potters. The Satsuma- England War results in the burning of the former clan's general meeting house and the destruction of the building. Gengi 1 1864 Keio 1 1865 Around this time Permanent display (1861/70), Tsukamoto of Japanese Ksisuke makes first crafts at South painting-style cloisonne Kensington plate (plate with design of Museum. Nagoya Castle). Keio 2 1866 Shogunate orders sencha tea set for emperor from Kozan Keio 3 1867 Paris Exposition German scientist The last Universelle exhibits Gottfried Wagener shogun,Tokugawa Japanese artifacts. invited to visit Yoshinobu returns Delegation sent by Japan. power to emperor Bakufu, Satsuma and Mutsuhito (19 Nov), Saga. who adopts reign Japanese cloisonne name “Meiji” shown for first time at a (enlightened rule). Worlds Fair. Tokugawa Exhibited Satsuma ware Shogunate also was sold at the South known as Edo Kensington Museum Bakufu. (now known as the Victoria and Albert Museum). The Omiya Incident was purchased by the Victoria and Albert Museum. Meiji 1 1868 Paris Exposition Daisetsu Gottfried Wagener Restoration of Universelle. The success Mitsuyama Sohei, arrives in Japan. imperial rule (3 Jan.) of Boku Seikan’s Kyoto is born in Edo renamed Tyoko. Satsuma ware marks the '07. Hattori Anga beginning of the Satsuma succeeds in Ports of Hyogo and boom. painting with Osaka opened. Western pigments. Around this time, Oath of Five Articles Kinkozan Sobei VI has a Shinbutsu Western visitor in Japan Separation for foreign trade. Export Ordinance tools, flowers, incense (Abandoned burners, etc. Buddha) Edo merchant Shimizu Mizuhoya Usaburo, returns from Paris Expo, bringing plaster of Paris slip-casting technique, cobalt oxide and other Western glaze materials. Meiji 2 1869 Mizuhoya Usaburo and Takahashi Dohachi First Kyoto Exhibition Hattori Kyoho are III (Kyoto) teaches with help professors of Western- Kyo yaki overglaze of Wagener and style painting in Arita. painting at the Leon Dury. Aiming to recover from Momobei the disaster. workshop. Imperial capital moved from Kutani ware painting Kyoto to Tokyo (Edo). factory established by Abe Bikai. Kinkozan Sobei VI begins to produce porcelains for export market. Meiji 3 1870 Kinkozan Sobei VI invents Wagener Seimikyoku the so-called Kyo-tei color introduces a new Research Center painting method, which is thinner for established by Kyoto one of the most chemically govn. important steps to produced cobalt To encourage Modernize. oxide, for use in education and underglaze promote industry. Mikiyama Denchi, painting. succeeded in the first Wagener builds Western drawing trial of Western Western-style kiln techniques summation and pigment at Arita. introduced in art in Kyo yaki. German trading schools. house H. Ahrens Kozan moves from Kyoto establishes Ahrens Cobalt monoxide a to Ota, Yokohama – with Shokai in Tsukiji, French war wife, Hanzan and 4 Tokyo.
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