Elegant Old Noritake and Noritake
横山美術館所蔵品 優美なるオールドノリタケ×ノリタケ
About 580 pieces of Old Noritake and Noritake porcelain at the Yokoyama Art Museum in Nagoya, for 150 years since the Morimura brothers founded Morimura-gumi.
Last entry 16:30. When a Monday is a public holiday, the museum opens and closes the next weekday instead. Closed 2026/12/28 to 2027/01/04.
〒 461-0004How to get there
新栄町5 min walk from the station
Elegant Old Noritake and Noritake is an exhibition at the Yokoyama Art Museum in Nagoya, held for the 150th anniversary of the founding of Morimura-gumi in 1876. About 580 pieces are chosen from the more than 1,600 works of Old Noritake and Noritake in the museum's collection, in a larger exhibition space than the museum usually uses.
Morimura-gumi and Noritake
The brothers Morimura Ichizaemon and Morimura Toyo started Morimura-gumi as a trading business in Ginza, Tokyo. Toyo went to the United States and ran its shop in New York, Morimura Brothers. The business came to center on ceramics, and its porcelain grew into Noritake, a name well liked in Europe and America. The exhibition presents Old Noritake (オールドノリタケ) as the first full-scale Western-style porcelain made in Japan.
Old Noritake
The first part of the exhibition looks at the techniques and designs of Old Noritake. Kinmori (金盛) is decoration in raised gold paste, moriage (盛上) is raised decoration built up on the surface, and luster (ラスター彩, rasuta-sai) is a glaze with a metallic sheen. Gold-paste pieces from about 1891 to 1911 are shown with luster pieces from about 1921 to 1941 and a silver luster demitasse set.
Modern Noritake
The second part turns to the craftsmanship of modern Noritake. It includes a vase painted with roses in about 1935 to 1940 by Shinogi Keiji (市ノ木慶治), a Nagoya oil painter who lived from 1891 to 1969. The figurine Aurora, made from 1976 on, and pieces from the Studio Collection made by skilled craftspeople are also on show.
Events
The overglaze painter Ando Eiko gives a lecture, with demonstrations, on restoring the lid of a large Old Noritake vase in the collection. Curators give gallery talks on several Saturdays during the run.
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