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- It houses objects including Satsuma ware and folk art from Papua New Guinea.
- Yokohama ware is difficult to define, but encompasses styles such as Arita ware and Satsuma ware that were destined for export.
- The intense popularity of Satsuma ware outside Japan in the late nineteenth century resulted in an increase in production coupled with a decrease in quality.
- The prefecture has strong agricultural roots, which are reflected in its most well-known exports : green tea, sweet potato, radish, Pongee rice, Satsuma ware and Shizuoka.
- From the early 1890s through the early 1920s there were more than twenty " etsuke " factories producing Satsuma ware, as well as a number of small, independent studios producing high-quality pieces.
- Is a style of Japanese earthenware originally from the enamel overglaze designs to appeal to the tastes of western consumers, manufacturers of the latter made Satsuma ware one of the most recognized and profitable export products of the Meiji period.
- Located on a hill overlooking Sakurajima and Kagoshima Bay, at an elevation of 110 metres, the Museum's collection of some thousand objects amassed by businessman, includes works by Kuroda Seiki, Rodin, and Chagall, as well as Satsuma ware.
- Following the popularity of Satsuma ware at the 1867 exhibition and its mention in Bowes " Keramic Art of Japan " in 1875, the two major workshops producing these pieces, those headed by Boku Seikan and Chin Jukan, were joined by a number of others across Japan . Satsuma ceased to be a geographical marker and began to convey an aesthetic.
- The collection of some three thousand works is exhibited in six buildings : the first, with works by Japanese artists associated with Kagoshima Prefecture, in particular Kuroda Seiki, Fujishima Takeji, and Wada Eisaku, as well as western artists including Monet, Renoir, Degas, and Picasso; the second for installation art; the third, antiquities; the fourth, kakejiku; the fifth, masks, including those used in kagura; and the sixth, Satsuma ware, works by the Museum's first director, and a gallery space for contemporary artists.