Oval, yellow with blue camellia, kutani style

Kutani is a tyle of porcelain from the north of Honshu (Kanazawa, Komatsu, Kaga, Nomi). The kutani design is dense with dark and intense colours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kutani_ware

The Japanese Camellia (Camellia japonica) is one of best known species of camellia. A lot of hybrids have been produced from it. Camellias flower in spring. They are sometimes mistaken with an other Japanese flower, the sazanka, which flowers in autumn.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camellia_japonica

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsubaki