Links to some of the images of Japanese cloisonne on this website. Additional images are within the blog discussions which are indexed below.
a. Quick view of the Japanese cloisonne vases
b. Imagebank of the base areas of Japanese cloisonne
c. Imagebank of the neck area of Japanese cloisonne
d. Imagebank of roundels from Japanese cloisonne
Index to blog posts on Japanese cloisonne vases, kouro and jars etc on this website. Note that the blog stopped at the end of 2019 with the post below, but the collection is being added to. See particularly the collections menu for Totai Vases and Totai Jars (the term is broadly and incorrectly used throughout to describe cloisonne on ceramic items of all types.)
71. Seeing Kinkozan on a plate (ceramic, Totai)
70. Ceramic butterflies in blue (ceramic, Totai)
69. Kinkozan jar in blue 錦光山 – Totai Shippo (陶胎 or トウタイ)
68. How spiral necklaces evolved away
67. Japanese Cloisonne Company made
65. Richly decorated with stylish houou birds
61. Another Kinkozan Sobei workshop example (ceramic cloisonne)
60. A large phoenix and dragon vase
59. A familiar phoenix (phoenix and dragon)
58 A Kyoto ’roundel and coin’ style vase in Takahara Komajiro workshop style
57. Comparing roundels and coins to see if two vases share a workshop
56. Metal based cloisonne pot with similarities with earlier ceramic cloisonne
55. Attractive bright blue cloisonne vase with birds amid flowers
54. Birds, butterflies and daisies with ‘moth wings’
53. Pair of lidded jars with butterflies and flowers on blue
52. Ceramic cloisonne jar with Kinkozan Sobei VI mark
51. Delicate bowl with Kawamoto Hansuke mark
50. Large phoenix (houou bird) and dragon style vase
49. Kyoto style roundel and coin vase in Takahara Komajiro workshop style
48. Curvy brown vase with butterflies amid goldstone
47. Vase is a study in brown with interesting designs
46. Comparing roundels and other features with objects 36 and 38
45. A familiar scattering of flowers.
44. Subtle red cloisonne roundels with unusual coins
43. Kouro with spiral necklace decoration and linked tear roundels
42. Six sided vases with spirals at the neck and linked tear roundels.
41. Beautiful 12 lobe jar showing off Japanese cloisonne
40. Butterflies and floral design in a familar pattern
39. Fan shaped decoration on a small jar
38. Pair of elegant tall slim vases with facing butterfly roundels
37. Bright blues, greens and butterflies
36. Neckband that might indicate Takahara Komajiro workshop
34. Blue and purple foil providing eye catching colour
33. Confident black background with floral design
32. Did spiral strength wiring interfere with floral design
31. Dense butterflies and floral designs
30. Distinctive roundels with three or four small butterflies
29. Dragon with flaming pearl and phoenix vase
28. Lonely houou bird paired with butterflies
27. Tracking down workshop origin of a Kyoto vase
26. Perfecting a Japanese cloisonne wiring design
25. When strength wiring stopped being essential.
24. A kaleidoscope of butterflies
23. A ginbari phoenix and dragon vase
22. Distinctive houou bird looking over its shoulder
21. Pair of blue beauties showing a new look for Japanese cloisonne
20. Lovely little kouro incense burner complete with lid
18. Beautiful green and blue butterflies shining out
17. Beautiful blue contrasting with black and brown
16. Can a Japanese cloisonne phoenix be familiar?
15. Are later dragon and phoenix vases as good?
14. Introducing bird and dragon vases
13. An art deco phoenix or houou bird
12. Pretty pair of ribbed vases
11. Adapting designs to different Japanese cloisonne vase shapes
10. Filling the space on a large Japanese cloisonne vase
9. How bright sunlight transforms Japanese cloisonne
8. Simple and elegant with twisted wire spirals
7. First sight of the Houou Bird
6. Japanese or Chinese cloisonne
5. Four fancy fans with bright foil blues and greens
4. The very simplest designs with blue, white and red flowers
3. The small improvements in Japanese cloisonne wiring
2. Brown and blue and green and shiny
1. When Japanese cloisonne was brown
NB The titles gives in the links above are generally different to those given to the original blog. This is to make them slightly more readable in links and so on.