TAB Event - "Old Noritake and Nostalgic Ceramics" Exhibition

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At Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum
Media: Ceramics

This exhibition examines, from a cultural history perspective, how the culture of using elegant Western tableware took root and progressed in Japan, from the Meiji era to the prewar Showa period. Around 200 pieces of Western tableware are on display, with a particular focus on the Moriya collection.
Western cutlery in Japan got started following a government policy to promote the development of new industries, as well as a general vogue for imitating and emulating European fashions. Through this process, "Old Noritake" soon became a brand name in porcelain for export purposes. Soon, Noritake began to apply Japanese preferences for certain ornamental techniques to their products in order to come up with designs that fused both Japanese and Western sensibilities, ushering in a unique tradition of Japanese "Western" tableware.
In addition to highlighting the export aspect of Noritake porcelain from the Meiji through Taisho periods, this exhibition also takes a retrospective look at "Taisho Roman" and "Showa Modern" aesthetics in the tableware that developed towards a Japanese decorative sensibility.

[Image: "Omodaka-mon Flower Vase" Morimura group (1891-1921) Moriya Collection]

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