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S. Korean pottery fete to shed light on mother of Japan's Arita ware
GIMHAE, South Korea, Oct. 11 (Yonhap) -- A Korean ceramic artisan revered for helping give birth to Japan's first domestic porcelain production will take the center stage at an annual pottery festival to be held this week in the southeastern city of Gimhae, the municipality said Tuesday.
At the Gimhae Buncheong Ceramics Festival, which will open on Saturday and will run through Oct.
23, organizers will feature Baek Pasun (1560-1656), a legendary female potter who blazed the trail for what is now known as Arita ware in Japan, along with Korean potter Yi Sam-pyeong.
Baek, who hailed from the South Korean city and was the first female pottery expert in the 1392-1910 Joseon Dynasty, and her husband and a Gimhae potter, Kim Tae-do, were captured by Japanese soldiers and taken to the town of Takeo near Arita in what is now Japan's Saga Prefecture in the late 16th century, when Japan invaded the Korean Peninsula.