A dish is not completed on the plate.
It begins the moment we face the vessel.
Nearly four hundred years ago,
sometsuke porcelain was fired in Jingdezhen during the late Ming period.
Its lines and spaces, born for everyday use, remain quietly present today.
These vessels do not speak loudly.
They receive, and they support.
The surface begins to breathe —
the porcelain and the brushwork revealing themselves in time.
Not to decorate cuisine,
but to move alongside it through centuries.
The reason these vessels have endured
reveals itself in that quiet presence.
