Kinrande - Kinrande

This refers to colored porcelain with gold leaf designs, also known as Gosai. The gorgeous color effect of decorating ceramics with gold leaf designs was already used on earthenware during the Tang dynasty, but the gold leaf design firing technique attempted at the Ding kiln during the Northern Song dynasty is considered to have been the first to be used on porcelain. After the Yuan dynasty, Jingdezhen kilns also produced gold brocade-style ware. In particular, during the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty (1522-66), the gorgeous decorative method of firing gold leaf designs onto white porcelain five-color ground became popular, and this type of porcelain came to be known in Japan as gold brocade-style ware. This Kajing Kinrande style became very popular in Japan in the mid-Edo period, in the 18th century, and became all the rage. Imari ware also followed this style and created its own unique Imari Kinrande style, which became a huge hit.

[Yoshiaki Yabe]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

金彩文様のある色絵磁器のことで、五彩ともいう。陶磁器に主として金箔(きんぱく)文様を加飾する華麗な色彩効果はすでに唐代に、土器に行われたが、北宋(ほくそう)代に定窯(ていよう)で試みられた金花（金箔文様の焼付け）技術が磁器では最初と目される。元(げん)以後は景徳鎮窯でやはり金襴手が焼かれている。とりわけ明(みん)代嘉靖(かせい)年間（1522～66）には白磁五彩地にさらに金箔文様を焼き付ける絢爛(けんらん)たる装飾法が流行して、この磁器がとくに金襴手と日本で呼び習わされた。この嘉靖金襴手は、江戸時代の中期、18世紀に日本で大いに愛好されるようになり、一世を風靡(ふうび)し伊万里(いまり)焼もこの金襴手に倣って独自の伊万里金襴手をつくりあげ、大流行を遂げた。

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