Nabeshima Tachibana-Mandarin-pattern Perfume Bottle

A collection of traditionally painted perfume bottles.

Each perfume bottle is fine-tuned one by one using advanced handwork techniques in order to improve the accuracy of sealing with the stopper. The richness of variation that various expressions create is attractive.

The painting is carefully and delicately painted one by one by hand-painting by craftsmen. Designed with a Nabeshima-style tachibana pattern. You can enjoy gorgeous traditional patterns by applying delicate painting.

Tachibana is described in "Kojiki" as a tree growing in "Tokoyo no Kuni", the utopia of immortality. For this reason, it has been loved since ancient times as a pattern that represents eternal youth and longevity. It bears orange fruit in autumn, but was mainly loved as an ornamental. Many auspicious motifs, which are said to bring good luck, come from China, but Tachibana has developed as a uniquely Japanese auspicious pattern.

In addition, Nakajima Shrine, located in the precincts of Imari Shrine in Imari City, the birthplace of Nabeshima ware, enshrines Tajimamori, the god of sweets. It is said that a long time ago, under the order of Emperor Suinin, Tadomamori, the founder of the confectionery, brought back the fruit of "Hijikaka" from the continent and planted it in Imari for the first time. The fruit is the fruit of the tachibana tree, and is said to be a native species of mandarin oranges, and tachibana trees are still planted at Nakajima Shrine. By the way, in Japan, since ancient times, nuts and grass nuts have been collectively called "Kudamono", and the kanji for "sweets (fruit)" has been applied. From such anecdotes, Imari came to be called the birthplace of sweets.

*Comes with a porcelain funnel