All photos are from Felissimo
It was just yesterday that I found these beautiful mamezara (very small plate dia. 6-10cm) at Felissimo online shopping site. I thought these patterns were absolutely beautiful. The site said that Alex Kerr had selected Old Kutani designs to be reproduced. I wondered who he was but didn't gooogle him.
Then, today at book sharing club, my friend was introducing his book(日本ブランド」で行こう Let's go with Japan Brand) to me. What a coincidence!
He is one of the western people who know and care about Japan more than Japanese people.
His other books sound interesting,too: Lost Japan 美しき日本の残像, Dogs & Demons 「犬と鬼」知られざる日本の肖像
