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Hoshikage Traditional Colors Small Plate
JPY 1,650 (incl. tax)
Scattered three-star motifs and softly rounded corners create an understated design that you can enjoy day after day.
With a generous serving area and useful depth, it works for dumpling sauce or soy sauce with sashimi. Small mounds of side dishes such as kinpira or simmered beans look especially appetizing.
The Traditional Colors series uses glazes with a long history in Japan, giving it a more distinctly Japanese character within the POTPURRI collection.
Dimensions: W95 × D97 × H20 mm
Material Porcelain
Made in Japan
Use and care
• Microwave: Clear and Ruri—yes; Kiseto and Oribe—no
• Dishwasher: Clear and Ruri—yes; Kiseto and Oribe—no
Do not use in the oven.
• For Kiseto and Oribe, craftspeople apply a thin glaze to each piece by hand, allowing it to pool at the bottom and create gradients across the surface.
• Please season the Kiseto and Oribe versions before first use.
Seasoning seals the open pores of the clay and helps keep stains from entering the glaze’s fine crazing. Repeating the process periodically helps seal these fine cracks so you can enjoy the piece for longer.
Put rice-rinsing water in a saucepan, stir well and bring it to the boil. Turn off the heat and place the piece in the water. Let the saucepan cool slowly for about an hour. Once completely cool, rinse away the starchy film with water and dry thoroughly.
• The Kiseto and Oribe glazes feature fine crackle patterns called kannyu. Dark-colored food and drinks can more readily stain these fine lines.
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Familiar colors and shapes: the gentle presence of Hoshikage Traditional Colors small plates
A small plate with a gentle design that fits naturally on any table. Easy-to-use colors and shapes make food look even more beautiful.
Introducing Hoshikage Traditional Colors from Teshio, POTPURRI's small-plate brand.
The appeal of Hoshikage Traditional Colors
Hoshikage Traditional Colors from the Teshio collection is easy to use, even if small plates are new to your table.
The glassy sheen and traditional Mino ware colors of Kiseto and Oribe pair naturally with simple side dishes and softly colored Japanese sweets.
A generous serving area and just enough depth
Designed for ease of use, Hoshikage has enough serving space and depth for sauces, soy sauce and moist side dishes such as kinpira or simmered beans. Softly rounded corners keep the shape understated, while the three-star pattern gently frames the food with character.
Hoshikage Traditional Colors comes in four familiar glaze colors
Hoshikage Traditional Colors features translucent glazes that draw on the whiteness of the clay and colors created with metal pigments. There are four: Clear, which reveals the white clay; Ruri, with vivid cobalt blue; Kiseto, with a golden yellow created by iron; and Oribe, with a deep green produced by copper.
Choose combinations to suit your table: Clear and Ruri for a fresh look, or Kiseto and Oribe for warmth.
Kiseto and Oribe are glazes used in Gifu's Mino ware. Their fine crackle lines, called kannyu, add depth to the design.
Hoshikage also comes in a half-matte series
Alongside the Traditional Colors introduced here, Hoshikage also has a Half-Matte series.
The Half-Matte series comes in white, navy, pink and brown. Its texture falls between glossy and matte, giving the pieces a calm, Western-style character.
The craft of making by hand
From the first shaping to the final firing, Hoshikage is made with close attention from its craftspeople.
After carving several clay models to explore the shape, we carve the chosen form in plaster. We take a mold from it and pour in clay to produce the pieces. The formed bodies are dried, trimmed smooth, bisque-fired, glazed, and fired again. Through these many stages, each piece comes to life as tableware.
Each piece is carefully made in the hope that, like the light of stars twinkling in the night sky, it will bring a little extra brightness to the table of whoever discovers it.
About Teshio, POTPURRI's small-plate brand
Named after the teshio-zara, considered one possible origin of small Japanese plates, Teshio is a brand that puts heartfelt care into these little dishes.
Long ago, as part of beliefs associated with salt, a small dish of salt was placed in the corner of a dining tray to purify the meal setting. This little dish, which fits in the palm of a hand, is called a teshio-zara.
Over time, these small plates became pieces for enjoying food. Their presence adds character to the table.
We fire each piece in our Tokyo workshop and send it out with the hope that its owner will cherish it and enjoy using it for years.
Hoshikage
The third small plate in the Teshio collection is informal and easy to use—a welcoming starting point even if small plates are new to your table.
Hoshikage refers to the light of stars twinkling in the night sky. We made this plate in the hope that, among the many small plates you might discover, it would bring a little extra brightness to your table.
Softly rounded corners keep the design understated, gently framing the food.
The Traditional Colors series uses glazes with a long history in Japan, giving it a more distinctly Japanese character within the POTPURRI collection.
Clear glaze reveals the white porcelain beneath, while Ruri glaze has a vivid blue made with the cobalt also used for blue-and-white porcelain. Use them together to enjoy their beautiful contrast.
Kiseto glaze has a subdued yellow created by iron, while Oribe glaze gains its deep green from copper. Both colors complement ingredients from the Mino region. Fine crackle lines in these glazes give the pieces depth and expression.
Explore the Teshio series