Jinju National Museum

Hizen is the former name of the present-day Saga and Nagasaki prefectures located in northern Kyushu, Japan. Hizen contained Nagoya Castle, which was erected as a military base to dispatch troops to invade Joseon during the Imjin War (Japanese invasion of Korea in 1592), and it was also part of the state of the family of Nabeshima, a Japanese general known to have taken the largest number of artisans from Joseon as prisoners. It was also the place where Japanese ceramics originated and became ...