Most of Japanese porcelain was produced in Arita, located in what is today Saga Prefecture in Kyushu.
Since Arita is an inland city, the wares were shipped out via the nearby Imari Port from where they first went to the Dutch trading station in Nagasaki and from there on the long journey to Europe.
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