Newsletter (April 18, 2025 Naoto Yano)

Hello everyone.

The "14th Generation Nakazato Tarouemon New Works Exhibition" will finally begin on Saturday, the 26th of next week.
The 13th Karatsu Yakimon Festival will begin on the 29th (Tuesday, national holiday).
This year, the holidays are a succession of days that start on the 26th.
Some of you may be enjoying a long 10-day holiday.
I hope the weather continues.

Well, for this year's Yakimono Festival we have teamed up with Furusato Choice, who have written special Yakimono Festival travel plans and feature articles that are eligible for hometown tax donations.

https://www.furusato-tax.jp/feature/a/series_porcelain

Also, although it is still in production, we have a Furusato Choice limited edition product,

"Karatsu Yakimono Festival Special Project: A Set of Five Popular Ceramicist's Karatsu Sake Cups"
 55,000 yen (tax included) Limited to 10 sets
・Korean Karatsu Choco by Naoto Yano
・Masaaki Kishida's work Madara Karatsu Choco
・Mishima Karatsu Choco by Shuichi Okamoto
・Karatsu white porcelain cup by Yoshihisa Ishii
・Illustrated by Akita Sumire


 "New Black Karatsu Sake Cup" by Nakazato Tarouemon Pottery Studio
 8,800 yen (tax included) Limited to 10 pieces


 "Karatsu Kakiotoshi sake cup made by the 14th generation Nakazato Tarouemon"
 132,000 yen (tax included) Limited to 5 pieces

It will be listed as a gift in return for hometown tax donations.
Next week, along with a new work by Tarouemon Nakazato,
We hope to be able to provide you with more details soon, so please stay tuned.

This week's issue of Ichibankan Online also features some newly arrived works by Naoto Yano. Please take a look at those too.

Well, Golden Week is just around the corner.
We hope you have a great weekend.

Naoki Sakamoto, Owner of Ichibankan