What is the Japanese product kakiemon?
Kakiemon Kakiemon Kakiemon is a term that generates some confusion, being the name of a family, one or more kilns, and a brightly-coloured overglaze style broadly imitating Chinese wares. The style originated with the family, whose kilns were the main producers of it, but other kilns also made it, and the Kakiemon kilns made other styles. Both the palette and style, and very probably the kiln, were in place by the 1680s. The style is a sub-type of what is called in the West Imari ware, the overglaze coloured variety of the broader grouping Arita ware, dominant in Japanese export porcelain
Kakiemon after he perfected a design of twin persimmons ("kaki"), developing as well the distinctive palette of soft red, yellow, blue and turquoise green now associated with the Kakiemon style. The name "Kakiemon" is sometimes used as a generic term describing Arita wares or Imari wares made in the Arita factories using the characteristic "kakiemon" overglaze enamels and decorative styles. The Kakiemon kiln seems to have been established by the 1680s, when the decorating technique was also fully developed. The early history and ownership are not very clear, and at this period the real Kakiemon enterprise may have been a decorating