[Iroe (polychrome pottery)]
A technique of decorating ceramics.
Iroe refers to painting motifs or patterns using lead-based red, yellow and green color glazes on the surface of glazed and fired earthenwares, porcelains, and firing them again at a lower temperature (around 800 degrees C) so the colored glaze melts onto the underglaze.
Arita ware is one of the representative iroe ceramics in Japan.

[Zuizan KAGA]
- Third Generation of Zuizan
His name is Osamu. Born in Mie prefecture. He is a potter. He was certified as a holder of Important Intangible Cultural Property by Mie prefecture with his work, “kuwana-banko Akae”.
Kuwana-bankos, a type of potteries, which are analyzed as semi-porcelains, have decayed once, but his grandfather revived them. The 3rd Zuizan inherited his grandfather and is making works based on the traditional technique of furubanko (old type of bank).
He is designing works with fine pictures or calligraphed patterns, which are novel and very known.
1944 - He was born in Kuwana city in Mie prefecture.
1964 - He graduated from Kuwana high school, and he learned potteries under the 1st Zuizan.
His works were designated Intangible Cultural Properties by Kuwana city in 1987 and Intangible Cultural Properties by Mie prefecture in 2001.