Japanese tea utensils produced outside Japan, Korea and China
 is a generic term for Japanese tea utensils produced outside Japan, Korea and China, mainly from Southeast Asia.
History.
Items from Korea, called , and from China, called , are not considered "shimamono".
They were imported with ships on trade routes and started becoming popular in the 15th and 16th centuries. The term therefore can be taken literally to mean "island objects". By the time of the rule of the "Shōgun" Tokugawa Yoshimune, imitation were also produced in Japan. However, at this point they were called "striped objects", but the pronunciation remained the same. As such they can be counted as part of Japanese pottery and porcelain.
The treatise "Tōkikō" describes the Japanese pottery trade with Asia and gives detailed descriptions.
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