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CATALOGUE OF A COLLECTION
OF OIL PAINTINGS AND WATER-COLOR
DRAWINGS BY AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN
ARTISTS AND OF ORIENTAL ART OBJECTS

BELONGING TO
THOMAS E. WAGGAMAN
OF WASHINGTON, D. C.

COMPILED AND EDITED BY H. SHUGIO
PRINTED AT THE DE VINNE PRESS
NEW-YORK, MDCCCXCIII

Copyright, 1893, BY H. Shugio

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PREFACE.

iTfi^T ^ bringing together the collection
iKj^) of Oriental art objects herein cata-
vmQ. l°gLied, ' ^ave fo^owed the ele-
""""" vating and admirable example set
by Baltimore's great connoisseur, Mr. William
Thompson Walters, whose magnificent col
lection has strongly influenced and inspired
me. At the outset of my efforts, I was for
tunate in securing many specimens from the
Brinkley collection, then being dispersed in
New- York. To this nucleus I have since been
adding, my aim being to make a collection
of beautiful art objects, so long as they are
made in strict accordance with Oriental tastes,
rather than the quaint and curious. I am now
happy to submit to my fellow art-lovers, and
those interested in the fascinating study of
Oriental Art, the results of my efforts.
I have been fortunate in being assisted by
the critical judgment of Mr. R. N. Brooke, a
well-known artist of this city, in the selection

PREFACE.
of my paintings, and I desire to make a grate
ful acknowledgment for his valuable assis
tance. I am particularly indebted to Professor Ed
ward S. Morse, a distinguished scientist, as
well as a great expert in Japanese pottery, for
his assistance in obtaining many rare speci
mens, and for much valuable information
about the names and dates of Japanese pot
tery. I owe much to the late Mr. Edward
Greey, for his assistance in selecting many
choice specimens of Chinese porcelains, and
for his painstaking service in preparing my
earlier catalogues. I also have to thank Mr.
Thomas B. Clarke and Mr. R. E. Moore for
many rare specimens of Chinese porcelains
and jades which 1 secured through them.
This catalogue has been compiled by Mr.
H. Shugio, to whom I have much pleasure in
making my acknowledgment for his valuable
assistance and critical judgment.
Thomas E. Waggaman.
Washington, February, 1893.

©U paintings anfc
WateiXIoIor drawings.

Ipaintinos.

i Sheep Coming Out of the Forest.
Anton Mauve, The Hague.

Medal, Paris Salon, 1887.
Deceased, 1887.

2 The Old Canal at Dordrecht.

Jacob Maris, The Hague.
Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

3 Sheep on the Downs.

Francois P. Ter Meulen, The Hague.

Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

paintings.
4 Haymaking Scene. Jules Jacques Veyrassat, Paris.
Medal, Paris Salon, 1872.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.
Legion of Honor, 1878.
5 Lake Nemi.
J. B. C. Corot, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1838, '48, '75.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Legion of Honor, 1867.
Born, 1796. Died, 1875.
6 Canal of San Trovaso, Venice. Martin Rico, Madrid.
Medals, Paris Expositions, 1878, '89.
Legion of Honor, 1878.
7 A Duet in the Studio. P. A.J. Dagnan-Bouveret, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1878, '80.
Medal of Honor, Paris Salon, 1889.
Grand Prize, Paris Exposition, 1889,
Legion of Honor, 1880.

8 A Blacksmith's Shop in Rome.

Oscar Bjorck, Stockholm.
Honorable Mention, Paris Salon, 1888.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

Ipaintings.
9 Fontainebleau.

J. B. C. Corot, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1838, "48, "75.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1867.

10 Landscape. Charles F. Daubigny, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1843, '53, '57.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1874.
Diploma to memory of deceased artists,
Paris Exposition, 1878.
Born, 1817. Died, 1878.

1 1 A Weir on the Wye.

J. M. W.Turner, London.

12 An Orphan School. Gotthard Kuehl, Munich.
Medal Paris Salon, 1888.
Legion of Honor, 1889.

13 Love's Greeting.

Ludwig Knaus, Berlin.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1853, '57, '59.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1855.
Medal of Honor, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1867.

paintings.
14 Saul Pursuing David.
Alexandre Gabriel Decamps, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1831, '39.
Legion of Honor, 1839.
Deceased.
1 5 At Twilight. Max Weyl, Washington, S. W. A.

16 Midsummer Landscape.

Jules Dupre, Paris.
Medal, Paris Salon, 1833.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Grand Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1870.
Born, 1811. Died, 1889.

17 The Vintage at Chateau Lagrange.
Jules Adolphe Breton, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1857, '59, "6i.
Medals, Paris Expositions, 1855, '67.
Medal of Honor, Paris Salon, 1872.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1867.
Member of the Institute, 1886.

1 8 Cows at the Ford.

Van de Sande Bakhuysen, The Hague.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

4

fainting*.
19 A Coming Storm.

Otto de Thoren, Paris.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Hors Concours, Paris Exposition, 1889.
Deceased, 1889.
20 The Watchful Mother. Albert Neuhuys, The Hague.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889, H. C.
Order of St. Michel of Bavaria, 1891.
Medal, Berlin Exposition, 1891.
2 1 Heath at Fontainebleau.
(After Th. Rousseau.) Jean Francois Millet, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1853, '64, '67.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Legion of Honor, 1868.
Born, 1814. Died, 1875.
22 Twilight — The Guard's Home.
Adrien Louis Demont, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1879, '82.
Gold Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.
23 A Quiet Corner.
Richard N. Brooke, Washington, S. W. A.

24 Fredegonda. Jean Paul Laurens, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1869, '72.
Medal of Honor, Paris Salon, 1877.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1878.

paintings.

25 A Provincial Asylum.

Walter Gay, Paris.
Medal, Paris Salon, 1888.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

26 The Page.

Ferdinand Roybet.
Medal, Paris Salon, 1866.

27 Homeward Bound.

Charles Jacque, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1861, '63, "64.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
First Medal, Pans Exposition, 1889.
Legion of Honor, 1869.

28 A Shipwreck.

Eugene Isabey, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1824, '27, '55.
Legion of Honor, 1832.

29 Cattle at Rest.

Constant Troyon, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1838, '40, '46. '48-
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1855.
Legion of Honor, 1849,
Born, 1810. Died, 1865.

Ipaintinge*

30 Going to the Well.

William Adolphe Bouguereau, Paris.
Medal, Paris Salon, 1857.
Medals, Paris Expositions, 1855, '67, '7%.
Medals of Honor, Paris Salon, 1885, Exposition, 1878.
Commander Legion of Honor, 1885.

3 1 Return to the Farm-yard.

Constant Troyon, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1838, '40, '46, 48.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1855.
Legion of Honor, 1849.
Born, 1810. Died, 1865.

32 A Landscape.

Narcisse Virgile Diaz, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1844, '46, '48.
Legion of Honor, 1851.
Born, 1807. Died, 1876.

33 A Musical Enthusiast.

Max Thedy, Munich.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

34 Early Morning on the Oise.
Karl Pierre Daubigny, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1868, '74.
Pupil of C. F. Daubigny.
Deceased.

paintings.
35 The Close of Day

Jean Francis Millet, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1853, '64, '67.
Medals, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Legion of Honor, 1868.
Born, 1814. Died, 1875.

36 The Flag of Truce.

Alphonse de Neuville, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1859, *6i.
Legion of Honor, 1873.

37 Solitude — A Winter Twilight. Charles H. Davis, Paris.
Honorable Mention, Paris Salon, 1887.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889.

38 Twilight.

39 Calves.

Henri Harpignies.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1866, '08, '69.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1878.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1883.

Anton Braith, Munich.

Medals, Munich Exhibitions, 1869, '76.
Medal, Vienna Exposition, 1873.
Medal, Dusseldorf Exhibition, 18S0.

Ipaintinos.
40 Spinners at Laghouat.

41 After the Ball.

Gustave Guillemet, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1865, "67, '72.
Legion of Honor, 1878.

Henri Lucien Doucet, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1879, '87.
Prix de Rome, 1880.
Legion of Honor, 1888.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1889,

42 A Street in Al Kantara. Gustave Guillemet, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1865, '67, '72.
Legion of Honor, 1878.

43 Evening. Theodore Rousseau, Paris.

Medals, Paris Salon, 1834, '49, "55.
Grand Medal of Honor, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Legion of Honor, 1852.
Born, 1812. Died, 1867.

44 Arabs on the March.

45 The Convalescent.

Eugene Fromentin, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1849, '57, '59.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1867.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1869.
Born, 1820. Died, 1876.

J. P. A. Antigna, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1847, '48, '51.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1855.
Legion of Honor, 1861.
Deceased.

paintings.

46 Black Rocks on the Coast of Normandy.
Charles F. Daubigny, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1843, '53, '57.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1874.
Diploma to memory of deceased artists, Paris
Exposition, 1878.
Born, 1817. Died, 1878.

47 Gulf of Antibes, Mediterranean. Henri Harpignies, Paris.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1866, *68, '69.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1878.
Officer Legion of Honor, 1883.
48 Winter. • George H. Boughton, London, N. A. and A. R. A.

49 Departure of the Fishing Fleet.
Middleton Jameson, Paris.
Honorable Mention, Paris Salon, 1888.

50 Wallachian Team at a Ford.
Adolphe Schreyer, Paris.
Medal, Brussels Exposition. 1863.
Medals, Paris Salon, 1864, '65.
Medal, Paris Exposition, 1807.
Medal, Vienna Exposition, 1874.

Watet>Color ^Drawings.
i Church at Midwolde, Holland. J. Bosboom, The Hague.
2 Winter. Anton Mauve, The Hague.
3 Landscape. Th. de Bock, Amsterdam.
4 A Dutch Household. Albert Neuhuys, The Hague.
5 The Potato Harvest. Ludwig Dettmann, Munich.

Mater>Color Drawings,
6 Cows in the Marsh. William Maris, The Hague.
7 The Noonday Repast. J. S. H. Kever, Amsterdam.
8 A Connemara Bailiff. H. N. Kerr, London.
9 Hailing the Boats. B. J. Blommers, The Hague.
io Dutch Peasant Child in a Baby-Chair.
Joseph Israels, The Hague.
1 1 Dividing Profits. J. S. H. Kever, Amsterdam.
1 2 At the Butcher-Shop. W. B. Tholen, The Hague.
1 3 Alone in the World. Albert Neuhuys, The Hague.
12

Water*CoIor Drawings.
14 Dordrecht. Jacob Maris, The Hague.
1 5 The Sand Cart. F. P. Ter Meulen, The Hague.
16 A Sheep Stable at Laren. Anton Mauve, The Hague.
1 7 Through the Forest.
Mme. Van den Bosse Bilders, The Hague.
18 Flowers. Kammerlingh Onnes, Leyden.
19 Girls Knitting. B. J. Blommers, The Hague.
20 A Courtier. L. Michetti, Rome.
2 1 The Scavengers. W. Luker, London.
13

Water^Color Drawings.
22 Freight Boats, Venice. W. H. Holmes, Washington.
23 Le Champ du Repos. J. G. Vibert, Paris.
24 Waterloo Bridge. William Witsen, London.
25 A Study Head. Miss E. Nourse, Paris.
26 The Standard-Bearer. Josef Villegas, Madrid.
27 Cows in the Forest. F. P. Ter Meulen, The Hague.
28 Night on the Hudson. J. H. Moser, Washington.
29 The Anchorage, Twilight. Parker Mann, Washington.
14

Water^Color Drawings,
30 The Return. Henri Martin, Paris.
3 1 Interior of a Studio. D. Oyens, Brussels.
32 Study of a Cow in Sepia. Anton Mauve, The Hague.
33 Night. Geo. Poggenbeek, Amsterdam.
34 Study of Heads in India Ink. Theo. Ribot, Paris.
35 Who can it be ? W. Hatherell, London.
36 Landscape. J. H. Weissenbruch, Amsterdam.
37 A Peasant's Hut. Madame Mesdag, The Hague.
16

Water^Color Drawings.

38 The Little Loiterer.
(Pastel.)

Francois Thevenot, Paris.

39 Laghouat. (Crayon Drawing.)

Gustave Guillemet, Paris.

40 A Soudanese Interior.

Gustave Guillemet, Paris.

41 The Sabot-Maker. (Fusain.)

Leon Lhermitte, Paris.

42 At the Hearth.
(Fusain.)

David-Nillet, Paris.

16

Japanese Ikeramics.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS ON
JAPANESE KERAMICS.
N the infancy of our Keramic Art,
only the unsightly wares without
glaze and inartistic in shape were
produced. These ancient speci
mens have no value in an artistic collection,
and I shall confine myself in these introduc
tory remarks to the later specimens, and pass
over the early period of our Keramic Art with
a few words.
The invention of this fascinating art in Japan
is traced far back to the prehistoric period ac
cording to our time-honored traditions, and
no doubt it was essayed in some form from
the remotest ages ; but the first reference to
pottery, which I believe to be authentic, is
made in our history when Susanono-Mikoto
commanded the native of Idsumi to brew
eight jars of Sake, and it is said that pottery
was made to a considerable extent from those
early days in a village of Idsumi, which has
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
been called Suyenomura, or the village of
pottery, since that time.
Another factory existed during the period
of 660-581 b. c, in the province of Omi,
where some vessels of pottery were made for
the religious services.
The pottery was made a very good use of
in the reign of Emperor Suijin (29 b. a), for
by his orders human figures of burnt clay were
buried with the body of his wife, Empress Hi-
hasuhime, in place of her attendants, as had
been customary until that time, whenever any
member of the Imperial family died, and for
tunately since then the clay figures have been
always used instead of the deceased one's
companions or attendants.
All the wares made during the early days
are very crude and coarse, being nothing more
than mere unglazed and burnt clay, but the
introduction of the potter's wheels attributed
to Giyoki, a priest of Idsumi, in 724 a. d.,
must be considered the real dawn of Keramic
Art in Japan. 20

ON JAPANESE KERAMICS.
The first glazed pottery was made during
the reign of Nara (806-9), and in 1223 Kato
Shiroyemon (generally called "Toshiro" by
our connoisseurs), who studied the Keramic
Art in China, made the first artistic glazed
pottery at Seto, in the province of Owari.
He tried several places, on his return from
China, for a pottery kiln in the neighborhood
of Kioto, and also in the province of Owari,
but finding Seto suited better for his purpose,
he settled finally there and opened a kiln.
From this time, Seto became the center of
Keramic Art, and all the Keramic productions
came to be called "Setomono" in Japan, as
they call all the porcelain "China" in Eng
land. His kiln was built after the Chinese
method, and he used black, brown, yellow, and
other glazes. The first Japanese porcelain was
made by Gorodayu Shonsui, a native of Ise,
who went over to China, where he spent
about five years in studying the secret of por
celain-making, and returned to Japan crowned
with success in 15 13. It is generally sup-
3A 21

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
posed that he settled in Hizen on his return
from China, but no trace of his presence in
any of the pottery kilns in that province can
be found, and no reference to his having been
in Arita is made in any record, either official
or private, which I have searched in that
province. Therefore I am inclined to think that he
must have gone to Kioto, the center of our
art world at that time, or to Seto, already
made famous for its pottery by Toshiro, where
he could have produced his porcelains, as
there are some references made to his having
made some porcelains in Ise and Owari, es
pecially by Ninagawa, the author of "Kwan-
Ko-Dsu-Setsu," and several other Japanese
writers. I found among old Japanese manuscripts
this information, that the famous Shonsui
established the kiln at Kasezan of Nara in the
province of Yamato, and it is more than prob
able that he made his porcelains here after his
return from China ; but it is beyond a question
22

ON JAPANESE KERAMICS.
that the honor of being the first potter who
made porcelain in Japan belongs to him.
His productions were made with Chinese
materials, imported by him from King-te
Ching, and decorated in blue under the glaze.
The greatest progress in our Keramic Art
has been made since the triumphant return
of our Korean expedition in 1598, when many
skilful Korean potters were brought over,
and the factories of Hizen, Higo, Chikuzen,
Nagato, Yamashiro, Kaga, Owari, Satsuma,
etc., were either established or improved by
them. Risampei, one of many Korean potters
brought over by Prince Nabeshima, opened a
kiln at the foot of Kanadate mountain, about
five miles north of the capital town of Saga,
by order of the Prince ; but, not finding good
materials, it was removed to Fujinokochi
shortly afterward, and thence to Arita, as the
fine materials were discovered in Idsumiyama
of Arita.
The first potter who decorated the porce-
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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
lain with enamel paintings over the glaze was
Kakiyemon of Nangawara, near Arita. He
acquired the secret of enamel-painting from
Tokuzayemon of Imari, who learned it from
a captain of a Chinese ship in Nagasaki
about 1640.
Kakiyemon was assisted by Gosu Gombei,
another noted potter, in his essays in enamel-
painting. Kakiyemon went on to Nagasaki
in the year 1646 with his decorated porcelains,
and sold them to a Chinese trader, and also
to Ichibei, a buyer for the Prince of Kaga.
Thus Kakiyemon has the honor, besides being
the first decorator, of being the first to sell
Japanese porcelains to foreigners. Since then
his wares have been bought by Chinese as
well as Dutch traders at Nagasaki for export.
Kakiyemon was honored by Prince Nabe
shima, by being appointed a special porcelain-
maker to his Highness, and his reputation
quickly spread all over Japan.
Ninsei, the great Kioto potter, assisted by
the generosity and liberality of Wankiu, a

ON JAPANESE KERAMICS.
wealthy merchant of Osaka, succeeded dur
ing the Meireki period (1655-57) m decorating
pottery with enamel-painting after the new
ly introduced method by Kakiyemon, and
produced those beautiful pieces which are
now so much valued as the Ninsei ware.
Another important progress in our Keramic
Art was the discovery of the use of saggars
in baking porcelains by Tsuji Kizayemon, a
noted potter of Arita during the Kwanbum
period(i 66 1-72). The discovery was made by
a fortunate accident, which is thus described :
On a certain occasion, opening his kiln after the
baking, he found that one piece had fallen in
side a larger one placed on a lower stand in
the oven, and on breaking the larger one he
discovered, to his great surprise, the small
piece in a perfect and better state of finish
than the others. This at once suggested to
him the advantage of using the saggars in
baking superior pieces, and the porcelains
baked in this method are called Gokushin
Yaki. 26

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
His productions attracted the attention and
admiration of the connoisseurs of that time,
and he was appointed one of the honored
potters to the Imperial Court of Kioto, through
the good offices of Prince Date of Sendai,
which was an honor highly prized by all the
artists. Another important production of Arita is
the egg-shell porcelain, which was first made
here about 1830 by Hisadomi Yojibei, better
known by his nom de plume, Zoshuntei
Sampo. Of the other important improvements in
our Keramic Art, I may refer to the molds in
making pottery, which were first introduced
by the celebrated potter Mokubei of Kioto,
about ninety years ago.
The history of nearly all the noted potters
and factories will be found in the catalogue.
In closing these introductory remarks on
Japanese Keramic Art, I desire to acknowledge
my indebtedness in preparing this catalogue
to Professor Edward S. Morse of Salem,

ON JAPANESE KERAMICS.
Mass., one of the greatest experts on Japanese
pottery, for his valuable assistance in looking
over my manuscripts, and to the following
authors and writers — viz., Mr. A. W. Franks,
the editor of "Japanese Pottery and Porcelain";
Captain F. Brinkley, the author of the "Jap
anese Keramics"; Doctor Ernest Hart, the au
thor of the lectures on ' 'Japanese Art Works " ;
Mr. Y. Imaidsumi, the writer on Japanese Ke
ramics in Japanese Art Magazine "Kokka";
Mr. W. T. Walters, the compiler of the
"Oriental"; and the late Mr. N. Ninagawa, the
author of "Kwan-Ko-Dsu-Setsu" — for much
valuable information I have derived from their
works. I have also consulted other Japanese
works with advantage in many instances.
H. Shugio.

27

Hwaji Mare, flslanb of Hwaji.

WAJI ware is the name given to
the faience and porcelain made at
Igano Mura, on the island of
Awaji. The kiln was first erected
here about fifty years ago by Kaju Mimpei, a
native of the village, who learned the potter's
art from Shiuhei of Kioto. This ware is often
known as Mimpei Yaki, from the founder's
name. It is said that Mimpei, who was quite a
wealthy man, spent away his whole fortune
29

Hwaji Mare.
in erecting his kiln, and in essaying to produce
the copies of Chinese porcelains and pottery
known as Cochin China, much admired by
Japanese connoisseurs.
Awaji pottery is usually of a very fine clay,
and of a beautiful even glaze, with fine
crackle, somewhat similar to Awata ware,
and the porcelain is rather more like Seto
ware in clay, though very different in glaze.
Among Awaji ware a favorite variety is that
of the tortoise-shell glaze.
There are also single-colored porcelains,
and potteries of green and yellow. His son
Rikita and his nephew Sanpei still carry on
the manufacture.

No. i. Bowl, Awaji porcelain.
Rich yellow glaze and white clay, decorated with
magnolia flowers, painted in purple, buds in white
and stem in green in the center, and with magnolia
flowers and daisies on the outside, 5^ inches in
diameter, 2^ inches in height. Made by Kaju Mimpei,
at Igano, in the province of Awaji. Date, 1830-40.
30

Hwaji Mare.
No. 2. Bowl, Awaji porcelain.
Flambe glaze in imitation of tortoise-shell, and white
clay, 5 3^ inches in diameter, 2^ inches in height. Made
by Kaju Mimpei, at Igano, in the province of Awaji.
Mark, small square characters in blue. Date, 1830-40.

No. 3. Tea Bowl, Awaji faience.
Creamy-white glaze and soft creamy clay, decorated
with a bunch of flowers, delicately painted in green,
black, gold, red, pink and purple over the glaze, 4 inches
in diameter, 3 inches in height. Made by Kaju Mimpei,
at Igano, island and province of Awaji. Mark, Mimpei,
impressed. Date, 1830-40.

No. 4. Vase, Awaji faience.
Reddish-yellow glaze with brown clouds scattered
over, and fine red clay, 1 1 ]/2 inches in height. Made at
Igano, island and province of Awaji. Date, 1850.

No. 5. Tea Pot,. Awaji porcelain.
A bright green glaze, with spots of yellow and pur
ple, white clay, 3 inches in height, 3 inches in diameter.
Made at Igano, island and province of Awaji. Date,
1840; unsigned. 31

Bi3en Mare.

Bi3en Mare, province of Bi3en.
Bizen ware is made at Imbe, in the province
of Bizen, and it is said that the kiln was erected
at Imbe long before the Oyei period, 1394-
1427, when a large kiln was established here
where some common seed-jars, etc., for
farmers were made.
The tea jars, vases, water jars, etc., now
esteemed and valued as the old Bizen, were
made since theTensho period, 1573-91. There
were two noted potters during the above
period, viz. :
Mikadsuki Rokubei, who used the sign of
new moon for his mark, and the other who
had a cherry flower for his mark. Of the
other noted Bizen potters, Mori, Kimura,
Tongiu, Kaneshige, Ohibiki, and Terao are
all well-known names.
There are several varieties in Bizen ware,
viz. :
1st. The old Bizen (Ko Bizen) by which we

Bi3en Mare,
know all the Bizen wares made before the
sixteenth century.
2d. Imbe ware, by which we distinguish
those pieces covered with brown glaze, over
which another thin yellow glaze is applied.
Imbe ware is usually odd in form. A great
many figures, both human and animal, be
long to this class.
3d. Hitasuki ware, so called from its slight
resemblance to Tasuki (Tasuki is a cord or
string worn round the arms by a person to
keep up his sleeves when he is engaged in
some work), is of rather hard, coarse clay,
and baked in strong heat, and these Tasuki-
like lines are made to come out in bright red
like fire — hence the name of Hi (fire) and
Tasuki (cord). This variety is said to have
been made toward the end of the sixteenth
century. And lastly, Ao Bizen, or green Bizen, ware
is the name given to the pieces which are
made of greenish-gray clay well manipulated
and unglazed. This variety was made since

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the latter part of the seventeenth century.
Shiro Bizen or white Bizen ware made of
light-gray clay is another variety which is
usually covered with thin, transparent glaze.
The specimens of this class are very rare.
Another variety, known as Migakide (the
polished style), is the ware glossy and solid,
and generally made of the better-manipulated
clay.No. 6. Sake Bottle, Bizen stoneware.
Reddish-brown glaze, and red clay, 4^ inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 7. Sake Bottle, Bizen stoneware.
Dark-brown glaze, and bluish-gray clay with streaks
of yellow, z,y2 inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the
province of Bizen. Date, 1700.
No. 8. Tea Jar, Bizen stoneware.
Brown glaze, and sandy-red clay, 3^ inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen.
Mark, line in circle, impressed. Date, 1700.

Bi3en Mare.
No. 9. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Globular in form, with long narrow neck, covered
with mottled brown glaze, with spots of inky black
ness, hard red clay, 9 inches in height. Made at
Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Mark, letter "I" in
circle, impressed. Date, 1650.

No. 10. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Oviform, with short narrow neck, brown splash
glaze, with yellow spots, and encircled by delicate
lines under the glaze, hard red clay, 6 inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1700.

No. 11. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Globular in form, with long narrow neck, partly
covered with dark mustard glaze, and decorated with
fine circular lines, fine yellowish-gray clay, 8)4 inches
in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 12. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Made in form of gourd, dark-brown glaze, and hard,
reddish-brown clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at
Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Mark, cross inside
hexagon, stamped. Date, 1750.

Bi3en Mare.
No. 13. Incense Burner, Imbe stoneware.
Made in an archaic shape, with handles on the sides,
and perforated decoration, dark-brown glaze, and hard,
coarse, reddish-brown clay, 5 inches in height. Made
at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1700.

No. 14. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Made in square form, with short and narrow neck,
with chrysanthemum flowers at the base of neck, and
on one side with chrysanthemum flowers incised, un
glazed, hard, fine bluish-gray clay, 8}4 inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1700.

No. 15. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Made in square form, narrowing toward the mouth,
unglazed, and hard, fine grayish-blue clay, 9 inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date,
1700.
No. 16. Sake Bottle, Imbe stoneware.
Made in form of gourd, with vines for its handles,
unglazed, hard, fine grayish-blue clay, 7% inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Mark
obscure. Date, 1750. 36

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No. 17. Water Jar, Imbe stoneware.
Made in the form of a basket, unglazed, hard, fine
grayish-blue clay, 6*4 inches in height. Made at Imbe,
in the province of Bizen. Date, 1700.

No. 17A. Sake Bottle, Bizen stoneware.
The body unglazed, and the mouth and shoulders
covered with grayish-brown glaze with drippings, hard
red clay, 10 inches in height. Made by Makudsu, a
Kioto potter, at Mushiage, in the province of Bizen.
Mark, Mushiage, impressed. Date, 1840.

Hgano Mare, province of Bu3en.
This ware is known as Agano Yaki, from
the name of the village where the kiln was
founded, in the fifth year of Keicho, by a
Corean potter named Sonkai, who was car
ried over from Korea, when the Japanese
expedition returned from that country, by
Hosokawa Tadaoki, one of the generals of
the Japanese army. Sonkai was given by
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him the name of Agano Kizo, and was pen
sioned at the same time. The pieces made
here by him and his followers are somewhat
after the Seto style, although some of them
are entirely different in clay and glaze from
Seto ware.
Agano ware made by the founder is very
rare, and highly esteemed by Japanese con
noisseurs. Some of his works are of coarse
clay and thick uneven glaze of dark chocolate
color. He followed his patron, Tadaoki, to the
province of Higo, in about 1620, where he
established another factory, but his two sons
remained at Agano following their father's
profession, and their descendants still carry
on the manufacture.

No. 18. Tea Bowl, Agano stoneware.
Covered with rich chocolate glaze, rough reddish-
brown clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made at Agano, in
the province of Buzen. Date, 1650. From Ninagawa
Collection.

U>anagawa Mare.
No. 19. Sake Cup, Agano stoneware.
Covered with fawn-colored glaze, with irregular
splashes of bluish-green, fine gray clay, 1^ inches
in height, 3^ inches in diameter. Made at Agano, in
the province of Buzen. Date, 1850.
No. 20. Tea Bowl, Agano stoneware.
Covered with rich chocolate glaze, rough pale-brown
clay, 3^ inches in height, 4^ inches in diameter.
Made at Agano, in the province of Buzen. Date, 1650.
No. 21. Tea Jar, with ivory cover, Agano
stoneware.
Covered with brown glaze, with darker brown run
ning glaze, hard brownish clay, 3 inches in height.
Made at Agano, in the province of Buzen. Date, 1620.
Yanagawa Mare, province of CMfcugo.
Yanagawa kiln was established during the
Keicho period at Yanagawa, in the province
of Chikugo. It was noted for its ash bowls,
which were made with fine soft white clay,
with black spots, and were much admired
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by tea^club men. Besides the ash bowls,
here were made sake cups, tea bowls, tea jars,
and mostly the articles used for ceremonial
tea. There are still in this place a few potters
carrying on their works in a small way.
No. 22. Incense Box, Yanagawa stoneware.
Covered with finely crackled gray glaze, and deco
rated in blue under the glaze, bluish-gray clay, 2 inches
in height, and 1 y2 inches in diameter. Made at Yana
gawa, in the province of Chikugo. Date, 1 800.
No. 23. Cake Plate, Yanagawa stoneware.
Covered with crackled pinkish-gray glaze, and deco
rated with landscape in blue under the glaze, elongated
square form, yellowish clay, 7^ inches by 6^ inches.
Made at Yanagawa, in the province of Chikugo. Date,
1800. Mark impressed, obscure. I
Gafcatori Mare, province of CbiRU3en.
The factory was established, or rather rees
tablished, at Sobara mura during the Keicho
period by a Korean potter, Hachizo, who fol-

Gafeatori Mare.
lowed the General Kuroda Nagamasa from
Korea on his return from the Korean expedi
tion, assisted by his nephew Shinkuro, who
was brought over by General Kato Kiyomasa
from Korea to Higo, but who was invited by
General Nagamasa to come to his province to
join his uncle in producing pottery. The
pieces made by them are of hard reddish clay,
and mostly glazed with brownish tea-color
glaze, and they are known as Ko Takatori, or
old Takatori .
During the Kwanyei period Prince Tadauki,
son of General Nagamasa, ordered Hachizo and
his son to receive some instructions from the
great art connoisseur and master of tea cere
monies, Kobori Yenshiu, regarding the shapes
and colors of pottery, and great progress and
improvement were made. About this time
Igarashi Zizayemon, a famous potter retained
by the Prince of Karatsu, came to the prov
ince, and he was asked to produce some pot
tery jointly with Hachizo. From this time
Takatori ware began to become quite famous.

Gafcatori Mare.
During the Shoho period a light-yellowish
clay came into use at this factory, and they
began to use the glaze containing a small
amount of oxid of iron, which produced a
fine metallic luster. These pieces made of a
light-yellowish clay with the lustrous glaze
are known as Yenshiu Takatori. Takatori is
one of seven favorite kilns of the great art
lover Yenshiu.

No. 24. Water Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Inside and outside covered with mottled glaze of
chocolate brown, and hard black reddish-brown clay,
5^ inches in height, 6 inches in diameter. Made at
Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1800.

No. 25. Oil Bottle, Takatori stoneware.
Flat shape, with short, narrow neck, covered with
mottled glaze of chocolate brown and black, with fine
mustard spots, dark-gray clay, 3^ inches in height.
Made at Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date,
1800. 42

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No. 26. Tea Bowl, Takatori stoneware.
Spreading top with metal rim, covered with dark-
brown and chocolate glaze, hard gray clay, 3^ inches
in height, 4^ inches in diameter. Made at Takatori,
in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1850.

No. 27. Tea Bowl, Takatori stoneware.
Body glaze, chocolate brown with bluish-green and
yellow glaze running over, and inside covered with
mottled yellowish-gray glaze, with brown glaze for
the edge, 3 inches in height, 4% inches in diameter.
Made at Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date,
1850.

No. 28. Vase, Takatori stoneware.
Rich brown glaze, with greenish-blue running glaze,
hard reddish clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at
Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1700.

No. 29. Sake Bottle, Takatori stoneware.
Yellowish-brown glaze, with grayish-blue running
glaze, gray clay, 10^ inches in height. Made at Taka
tori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1750.

takatori Mare.
No. 30. Sake Bottle, Takatori stoneware.
Yellowish-brown glaze, with grayish-blue running
glaze round the neck, and decorated with an impressed
figure of Hotei in a depressed place in the front, gray
clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the prov
ince of Chikuzen. Mark, Japanese character of Ka,
under an angle. Date, 1750.

No. 3 1 . Sake Bottle, Takatori stoneware.
Brownish-yellow glaze, with bluish-gray running
glaze round the neck, gray clay, 75^ inches in height.
Made at Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date,
1750.
No. 32. Sake Bottle, Takatori stoneware.
Flat shape, brilliant chocolate glaze, gray clay, 4
inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the province
of Chikuzen. Date, 1750.

No. 33. Sake Decanter, Takatori stoneware.
Brown glaze, with black and bluish glaze running
over, 5 inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the prov
ince of Chikuzen. Character, Taka, in a circle. Date,
1800.

ftafcatori Mare.
No. 34. Incense Box, in form of Daruma, Ta
katori stoneware.
Yellowish-brown glaze, reddish hard clay, 3 inches
in height. Made at Takatori, in the province of Chi
kuzen. Date, 1750.
No. 35. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Bulb-shape, flange top, covered with brown-and-gray
glaze, gray clay, 2}i inches in height. Made at Takatori,
in the province of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date,
1800.
No. 36. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
With two small handles, covered with a deep-brown
glaze with blue streaks, reddish-brown clay. Made at
Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Thread mark.
Date, 1750.
No. 37. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with brown and mustard edge, gray clay,
3^ inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the prov
ince of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date, 1800.
No. 38. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with brilliant glaze, with irregular flecks of
black on chocolate-brown, gray clay, 2^ inches in
height. Thread mark. Date, 1700.

Gafcatori Mare.
No. 39. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with brown and chocolate glaze, bluish-gray
clay, 2^ inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the
province of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date, 1800.
No. 40. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with dark purplish-brown and mustard glaze,
dark-gray clay, 4 inches in height. Made at Takatori,
in the province of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date,
1800.
No. 41. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with dull chocolate-brown glaze, reddish-
gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the
province of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date, 1750.
No. 42. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with brown and pale-green glaze, reddish-
gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Takatori, in
the province of Chikuzen. Thread mark. Date, 1800.
No. 43. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with dark purplish-blue glaze, with small
yellow specks, gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at
Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1800.

Ibarima Mare.
No. 44. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Takatori
stoneware.
Covered with bright mustard glaze, with darker
specks, gray clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Taka
tori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1750.

No. 45. Tea Jar, Takatori stoneware.
Covered with brilliant yellowish-brown glaze, the
neck and the shoulders splashed with light-gray glaze,
14^ inches in height, and 10^ inches in diameter.
Made at Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date,
1800.

"Ibimeji Mare, province of Ibarima.
Tozan or Himeji ware was made at a pri
vate factory established in the city of Himeji,
in the province of Harima, by Prince Sakai
during the Tempo period, 1830-43. It is said
to have been established by Dohachi, the cele
brated Kioto potter, according to Ninagawa,
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factory produced some fine specimens of
celadon, which are much admired, and some
blue and white, somewhat similar to Arita
ware. It also turned out some pottery made
after Korean style, principally Mishima and
Hakeme style.
HfcasM Mare, province of Ibarima.
Akashi factory is said to have been estab
lished in about 1644, at Akashi, in the prov
ince of Harima, by Ninsei, the great Kioto
potter, by a special request of the Daimio of
that province, and its products are very much
like Ninsei ware.
n&aifco Mare, province of Ibarima.
Maiko factory is situated at Maiko, in the
province of Harima, and its products are
somewhat similar to Soma ware in their ap
pearance, being of same kind of clay and hav
ing same glaze. It is not known when the

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factory was first opened, and no record being
found in any Japanese Keramic works, it must
be of comparatively recent date.

No. 46. Square Bowl, Maiko faience.
Covered with splash glaze of yellow, purple, green
and fawn colors, soft yellowish-gray clay, 2^ inches
in height, and 5 inches in diameter. Made at Maiko, in
the province of Harima. Mark, Totoken, impressed.
Date, 1840.

No. 47. Sake Bottle, Akashi Stoneware.
Square shape with small neck, covered with gray
ish-yellow glaze, and decorated with raised figures,
flowers and diapers, in panels on four sides, fine dark-
gray clay, 7 inches in height. Made at Akashi, in the
province of Harima. Date, 1 780.

No. 48. Saucer, leaf-shape, Maiko stoneware.
Covered with yellowish-gray glaze, with fine brown
flecks, and with irregular splashes of grayish-green
glaze in the center of two leaves, pale bluish-gray clay,
1 % inches in height. Made at Maiko, in the province of
Harima. Mark, Maiko, impressed. Date, 1840.
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No. 49. Sake Cup, Suma stoneware.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
two bands of brown, coarse gray clay, 1 y2 inches in
height. Made at Suma, in the province of Harima.
Mark, Suma, impressed. Date, 1840.

No. 50. Sake Decanter, Maiko stoneware.
Covered with gray glaze, with bluish-gray splash
and fine brown flecks, pale bluish-gray clay, 7 inches
in height. Made at Maiko, in the province of Harima.
Date, 1840.
No. 51. Bowl, Maiko stoneware.
Covered with brown glaze, with grayish-green glaze
splashed in the center, pale bluish-gray clay, 5^
inches in diameter. Made at Maiko, in the province of
Harima. Mark, Maiko, impressed. Date, 1800.

No. 52. Cake Dish, Maiko stoneware.
Covered with gray glaze with brown flecks, and dec
orated with pine-tree in the center, light-gray clay, 8
inches by 6^ inches. Made at Maiko, in the province
of Harima. Mark, Maiko, impressed. Date, 1800.

H>atsusbiro Mare,
No. 53. Saucer with small mouth, Maiko
stoneware.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze inside, and yellowish-
brown glaze outside, reddish-gray clay, 5*^ inches in
diameter. Made at Maiko, in the province of Harima.
Mark, Sohei, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 54. Cake Plate.
Akashi faience, covered with gray crackled glaze, and
decorated with bamboo painted in brown under the
glaze, light-gray clay, 6% inches in diameter. Made
at Akashi, in the province of Harima. Mark, Akashi,
impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 55. Konro, Himeji porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with land
scape and a verse painted in blue under the glaze, fine
white clay, 7 inches in height. Made at Tozan, in the
province of Harima. Mark, Tozan, painted. Date, 1 83 1 .
I
$atsusbiro Mare, province of Ibiao.
The ware known as Yatsushiro was first
made toward the end of the sixteenth cen
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founded a kiln at Agano, Buzen, and at Koda,
in the district of Yatsushiro.
This ware is a hard faience, or stoneware,
made of fine clay, and covered with fine
crackled glaze. The early specimens are
mostly decorated with some designs inlaid
with white clay under the glaze. The storks
in the cloud and brush-marks are the
favorites. Here, also, the ware resembling the Seto
Kusuri Satsuma was made in the early days.
A kiln at Shimo-Toyohara Mura still turns out
some beautiful examples of that exquisite
faience known as Yatsushiro ware.
Gsunaoavama Mare, province of 1bigo.
This factory was established about 1780,
at Tsunadayama, in the district of Udo, in
the province of Higo, and the ware produced
here resembles that of Hirado, being mostly
decorated in blue under the glaze, although
much inferior to Hirado in glaze and clay.

H)atsusbiro Mare.
No. 56. Bowl, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
brush-mark, inlaid in white under the glaze, dark red
dish-brown clay, 7^ inches in diameter. Made at
Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1 8oo(.

No. 57. Bowl, in form of chrysanthemum
flower, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with dark glaze, and decorated with inlaid
white archaic design, light reddish-brown clay, 6 inches
in diameter. Made at Koda, in the province of Higo.
Date, 1750.
No. 58. Incense Burner, Yatsushiro stone
ware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
chrysanthemum and storks, inlaid in white and black
under the glaze, reddish-brown clay, 3 inches in height.
Made at Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1750.
No. 59. Incense Box, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with yellowish-brown glaze, and decorated
with radiating lines in white inlaid under the glaze,
light-reddish clay, 2^ inches in diameter. Made at
Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1850.
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No. 60. Water Jar, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
Greek fret border, and vertical lines in white inlaid under
the glaze, light reddish-gray clay, 7 inches in height.
Made at Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1850.

No. 61. Bowl, in form of cherry flower,
Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with greenish-gray glaze, and decorated with
engraved designs partly inlaid in white under the glaze,
dark-brown clay, 5^ inches in diameter. Made at
Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1800.

No. 62. Hanging Vase, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
floral designs inlaid in white under the glaze, dark-
brown clay, 8% inches in height. Made at Koda, in
the province of Higo. Date, 1700.

No. 63. Tea Bowl, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze, and decorated
with pine-tree painted in dark brown under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 4^ inches in height. Made at Koda, in
the province of Higo. Date, 1700.
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No. 64. Vase, in form of a cherry flower,
Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze over the rough sur
face, dark-brown clay, 4^ inches in height. Made at
Koda, in the province of Higo. Date, 1750.

No. 65. Sake Bottle, in square form with
narrow neck, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with an
archaic design inlaid in white under the glaze, dark-
brown clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at Koda, in
the province of Higo. Date, 1 700.
No. 66. Vase, with three feet, Mesukoji
stoneware.
Covered with bluish-brown glaze, and decorated with
incised Greek fret around the base and top, light-brown
clay, 5 inches in height. Made at Mesukoji, in the
province of Higo. Mark, Mesukoji, impressed. Date,
1800.
No. 67. Rice Bowl, with cover, Udo por
celain.
Decorated with storks in cloud in blue under the
glaze, white clay, 3 inches in height, and 4^ inches in

Bogasaki Mare.
diameter. Made at Tsunada Yama, in the district of
Udo, Higo. Mark, Higo Udo gori Tsunada Yama Sei.
Date, 1800.

No. 68. Sake Bottle, Yatsushiro stoneware.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
bamboo-trees inlaid in white under the glaze, reddish-
brown clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at Koda, in
the province of Higo. Date, 1750.

BogasaM Mare, province of 1bi3en.
This ware was made at a kiln in Bogasaki of
Nagasaki by an amateur potter during the
Tempo period, 1830-43. He made some copies
of Chinese Baccara stoneware, and also some
pottery either decorated with designs painted
in blue under the glaze, or with designs in
laid with white clay under the glaze. The
specimens of his works are rather scarce.
They are nearly all signed with Bogasaki,
either incised or impressed.

"IRamevama Mare.
No. 69. Saucer, Bogasaki faience.
Inside border crenulated, and covered with dark-gray
glaze, and decorated with dragon inlaid in white under
the glaze, reddish-brown clay, 4 inches in diameter.
Made at Bogasaki of Nagasaki, in the province of Hizen.
Mark, Bogasaki, incised. Date, 1840.

No. 70. Saucer, in fan-shape, Bogasaki
faience.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
a Chinese sentence, as follows: "The hills in the
front, and the long harbour at the foot, give pleasure
whether one looks up or down," light-gray clay. Made
at Bogasaki of Nagasaki, in the province of Hizen.
Mark, Bogasaki, impressed. Date, 1840.

IRamevama Mare, province of 1bi3en.
The ware known by this name was made
at a kiln in Kameyama of Nagasaki. It was
established after the Arita system, and its
productions were mostly confined to blue-
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Ikame^ama Mare.
Chinese blue and white. At first the clay
found on the island of Amakusa was used, but
since the Tempo period, 1830-43, a material
has been imported from Soochow, China, and
was employed in making tea bowls, etc. It
is said that the Kameyama factory existed
only for about half a century, having been
closed about twenty years ago.
No. 71. Sake Decanter, Kameyama stone
ware.
Covered with pale-gray glaze, and decorated with
standing storks painted in blue, and inlaid with white
under the glaze, dark-brown clay, 7 inches in height.
Made at Kameyama of Nagasaki, in the province of
Hizen. Mark, written in brown under the glaze, Kame
yama Nite Kitsuroku Tsukuru (made by Kitsuroku, at
Kameyama). Date, 1850.
No. 72. Bowl, in form of melon, Kameyama
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape in blue under the glaze,
white clay, 6^ inches in height. Made at Kameyama
of Nagasaki, in the province of Hizen. Mark, written
in blue under the glaze, Kameyama Sei. Date, 1840.
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No. 73. Writing Table Screen, Kameyama
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape in blue, and with border
decoration of engraved Greek fret under the glaze, white
clay, 8 inches in height. Made at Kameyama of Naga
saki, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1840.
No. 74. Ink Rest, Kameyama porcelain.
Decorated with flowers and scrolls with Greek fret
borders in blue under the glaze, white clay. Made at
Kameyama of Nagasaki, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1840.
IDitsutsuaawa Mare, province of 1bi3en.
This factory, which was situated at Utsut-
sugawa, near Yagami, in the province of
Hizen, is supposed to have been first estab
lished toward the end of the sixteenth cen
tury, by a Korean potter. It was reestab
lished during the Kwanyei period, 1624-43,
by Tanaka and Shigedomi, and only existed
up to the Hoyei period, 1704-10.
The specimens, therefore, of this ware are
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scarce. They are made of hard reddish clay,
and resemble the old decorated Karatsu ware.
Some remarkably fine copies of old Cochin
China and Korean ware were produced at
this factory, and they often are mistaken for
the original.
No. 74 a. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with
long neck, Utsutsugawa stoneware.
With dark-brown glaze, and decorated with brush-
marks in green under the glaze, hard red clay, 22 inches
in height. Made at Utsutsugawa, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 74 b. Plate, Utsutsugawa stoneware.
Decorated with conventional clouds and flowers in
white, and covered with dark-brown glaze, hard red
clay. Made at Utsutsugawa, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1700.
No. 74 c. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with
long neck, Utsutsugawa stoneware.
Decorated with archaic floral design in colors, and
covered with dark-brown glaze, hard red clay, 20 inches
in height. Made at Utsutsugawa, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1650.

Ikaratsu Mare,
Ikaratsu Mare, province of 1bi3en.
Karatsu kilns are situated at the foot of a
hill near the city of Karatsu, in the district of
Matsura, in the province of Hizen. It is said
that some pottery was made here from the
remote ages, but the early history of the kilns
is not known, and the early productions now
in existence are all the ordinary clay wares
unglazed. Karatsu wares are now classified in seven
kinds or varieties, viz. :
i st. Yonehakari (rice measure), produced
during the Genkio period, 1321-23, which is
covered with thin glaze without luster. This
variety is believed by some to have been so
called from its being used for measuring rice,
but it is not correct, because the pieces known
under that variety are not the same in size.
2d. Nenuke (up-rooted) variety was made
during the Kenbu and Bummei period, 1334-
1486. The clay used in this variety was
white and red, and the glaze of lead-color
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having the crape-like appearance within the
ring at the base or bottom of a piece. This
variety is much esteemed.
3d. Oku Korai (Old Korean) wares were
made during the Bummei and Tensho period,
1 486-1 59 1. During this period the ceremo
nial tea was in great vogue, and the amateurs
admiring the Korean tea bowls, which they
could not obtain, as they were scarce, had
them copied at Karatsu.
The bowls are known under the name of
Oku Korai, which means the old Korean.
The clay of Oku Korai is finer, and the
glaze is either of rich brown color like that
of Hiwa seeds, or of yellowish green.
Those having the crape-like appearance
within the ring of the base are considered to
be the best. The above three varieties are
generally known as the old Karatsu.
4th. Seto Karatsu, so called from having
the Seto glaze, was made during the Onin and
Tensho period, 1467-1591. This variety has
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with thin gray glaze, showing the tortoise-
shell-like crackles.
5th. Ye Karatsu, the decorated Karatsu,
was made since Tensho, 1591. Of this vari
ety many tea bowls, plates, and bowls are
to be found. The clay is of reddish earth,
and the glaze of yellow, green, and black,
with a great deal of luster. The designs are
mostly sketchy flowers and grasses.
6th. Chosen Karatsu (Korean Karatsu)
was made with the Korean clay and glaze
during 1591-1643. The clay is dark-reddish
earth, and the glaze green mixed with white,
which is commonly known as Namako glaze.
There are very few tea bowls of this variety,
although a great many water jars and plates.
7th. Horidashi Karatsu ("dug up Karat
su ") was made during 1643-1735. The clay
is hard, and the glaze has generally a dark-
greenish tone. Those having the crape-like
appearance within the ring at the base are
the best. The name of Horidashi came from
the fact that the pieces imperfect in shape,
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or too highly fired or broken, which were
buried by the potters as useless, were un
earthed, and made much of by the tea-club,
amateurs and the same ware made during
this period, and not buried, is also called by
the same name. The above four varieties
are the famous Karatsu wares.
During 1780-18 17, Lord Ogasawara of Ka
ratsu ordered some potters to make pottery
like that of Yatsushiro with inlaid ornamenta
tion of storks in cloud, etc., for the purpose
of presentation to the Shogun and his friends.
This variety has not been made since 1869.
Of the noted potters still working at Ka
ratsu, Tarozayemon, Yejibei, and Kaheiji are
very skilful.

No. 75. Sake Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Bulb shape with tapering neck, and slightly spreading
mouth with silver top, covered with bluish-gray glaze,
and decorated with conventional forms of cherry and
chrysanthemum flowers, and vertical lines inlaid with
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white clay under the glaze, dark-brown clay, 1 5 inches
in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1600.

No. 76. Sake Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Bulb form with short neck, and spreading mouth,
covered with bluish crackled gray glaze, sandy dark-
gray clay, 6^ inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1600.

No. 77. Tea Jar, with ivory cover, Karatsu
stoneware.
Covered with brownish-gray glaze, dark-brown clay,
3 inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 78. Tea Bowl, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with greenish-gray glaze, and decorated in
brown under the glaze, coarse reddish-gray clay, 3^
inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.

Ikaratsu Mare.
No. 79. Cake Dish, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with brownish-gray glaze, and decorated
with an archaic design inlaid in white under the glaze,
fine red clay, 71^ inches in diameter. Made at Karatsu,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 80. Comfit Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Bulb form with small neck, covered with yellowish-
brown glaze running into gray, 2^ inches in height.
Made at Karatsu, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 81. Jar, bulb-shape, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with bluish-green glaze with „ purplish-red
spots, reddish-brown clay, 5^ inches in height. Made
at Karatsu, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 82. Sake Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Globular body tapering to a narrow neck, and spread
ing toward the mouth, covered with brownish-gray
glaze, reddish-gray clay, and decorated with brush-
marks, inlaid in white under the glaze, 9^ inches in
height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of Hizen.
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No. 83. Sake Bottle, with short, narrow
neck, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
wave design engraved under the glaze, reddish-brown
clay, 9% inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 84. Tea Jar, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with purplish-gray glaze, brown clay, 1 y2
inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1650.

No. 85. Vase, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with flowers
and scrolls inlaid in white under the glaze, dark-brown
clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1650.

No. 86. Tea Bowl, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
brush-marks in black under the glaze, reddish-gray clay,
5 y inches in diameter. Made in Karatsu, in the prov
ince of Hizen, and dug out at a village near Karatsu.
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No. 87. Fire Bowl for smoker, Karatsu
stoneware.
Covered with yellowish-gray glaze, reddish-gray
clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the prov
ince of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 88. Sake Bottle, with short, narrow neck
with swelling body, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with brown-gray and green glaze, and dec
orated with an archaic floral design in brown, reddish-
brown clay, 13 inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.

No. 89. Water Jar, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
standing storks, the body inlaid in white, and beaks
and feet painted in brown under the glaze, brown clay,
7% inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 90. Bowl, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with purplish-gray glaze, and decorated
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painted in brown under the glaze, fine gray clay, <^y2
inches in height. Made at a private kiln of Prince Oga-
sawara in Karatsu, province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 91. Sake Bottle, gourd-form, Karatsu
stoneware.
Covered with finely crackled gray glaze, and decorated
with Japanese poem, fine gray clay, 7^ inches in
height. Made at a private kiln of Prince Ogasawara in
Karatsu, province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 92. Sake Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Flat shape, with short, narrow neck, covered with
pinkish glaze, and decorated with fine thread-marks
and scroll of bluish-white glaze splashed over, 3^
inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1850.

No. 93. Sake Bottle, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with white
inlaid design after Mishima decoration, fine gray clay,
6% inches in height. Made at a private kiln of Prince
Ogasawara in Karatsu, province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
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No. 94. Water Jar, Karatsu stoneware.
Covered with thin gray glaze on the outside, and
with thick, greenish-brown glaze inside, gray clay, 7^
inches in height. Made at Karatsu, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1600.

Ibiraoo Mare, province of 1bi3en.
This ware is so called from its factory
having been owned by Prince Matsura of
Hirado. The factory was established by
Imamura Sannoji during the Meireki period
(1655-57), but it was not until the Horeki
period (1751-62) that it produced those
charming specimens so much prized and ad
mired by our collectors and connoisseurs,
when Prince Matsura gave a new and great
impulse to its production by rebuilding the
furnaces, and by employing the best potters
and decorators at the factory, who were not
allowed to make anything except for him.
The best specimens of Hirado ware are to
be found among the pieces turned out of
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that factory from the Horeki period (175 1-
1762) up to the middle of this century.
Among the blue-and-white porcelains made
at the factory especially for the prince, the
pieces painted with designs of Chinese boys
at play under a pine-tree are much esteemed,
and the value of the pieces varies according to
the number of boys painted on them, the best
having seven boys, the second five, and the
third only three.
In the white Hirado ware, the wonderful
skill in modeling and always correct and
graceful form are displayed. The blue-and-
white ware is generally very refined in design
and soft in tone. The Hirado ware is. made
of the best-manipulated clay, much finer
than any other to be found in other Japanese
porcelains, except Nabeshima, and well de
serves the ardent admiration of all the lovers
of our keramic art.
The factory force was composed of a di
rector, and about twenty potters and deco
rators, all pensioned by the prince. Among
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the most famous artists connected with it
were Imamura Joyen, Kuchiishi Kiheiji, Fu-
rukawa Matazo, Imamura Riyemon, and
Ikeda Yasujiro.
No. 95. Vase, Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with the seven boys at play under pine-
trees, delicately painted in blue under the glaze, and
covered with soft white glaze, fine white clay, 8 inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in theprovince of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 96. Vase, Hirado porcelain.
Covered with pure white glaze, and decorated with
pine-trees painted in blue under the glaze, ornamented
with stcjrk handles, fine white clay, 8 inches in height.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1750.
No. 97 . Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with straight,
small neck, Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with five boys at play in a garden, painted
in blue under the glaze, and covered with white glaze,
fine white clay, 8 inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.

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No. 98. Incense Burner, with pierced cover,
Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with five boys at play under pine-trees,
painted in blue under the glaze, and covered with white
glaze, fine white clay, 4 inches in height, Made at
Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 99. Water Jar, cylindrical form, Hirado
porcelain.
Decorated with graceful leaf-scroll, painted in blue
under the glaze, and covered with white glaze, fine
white clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 100. Water Jar, cylindrical form, Hirado
porcelain.
Decorated with conventional wave design, engraved
under the glaze, and covered with white glaze, fine
white clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 101. Incense Burner, Hirado porcelain.
Square form, with four handles and four feet, deco
rated with flowers and basket design, delicately en
graved under the glaze, with blue stripes round the
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neck, and covered with white glaze, fine white clay, 4^
inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 102. Vase, Hirado porcelain.
Covered with celadon glaze, and decorated with bam
boo, engraved and inlaid with white clay under the
glaze, fine white clay, 10 inches in height. Made at
Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 103. Incense Burner, with silver cover,
Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with the carved design of peony flowers
and rocks under the glaze, and covered with pure white
glaze, fine white clay, 2^ inches in height. Made at
Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Hirado Sei,
in blue under the glaze. Made at Hirado kiln. Date,
1800.
No. 104. Sake Cup, Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with fish, painted in blue under the glaze,
ornamented with gold over the glaze in the inside,
and on the outside with Daruma painted in blue, and
the name " Hiodoshi" in raised characters under the
glaze, fine white clay, 3^ inches in diameter. Made at
Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Hirado
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Ontome Yaki, painted in blue under the glaze. (The
Hirado ware prohibited from sale.) This cup is one of
many that were made especially for the prince, to be
presented to his favorite wrestler "Hiodoshi." Date,
1800.
No. 105. Water Jar, cylindrical form, Hirado
porcelain.
Decorated with minutely executed landscape, painted
in blue under the glaze, and covered with white glaze
cracked in the second baking, fine white clay, 6^
inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Mark, Made by Kuchiishi Rizayemon and
painted by Imamura Riyemon at the private kiln in
Mikawachi in the middle of August in the 6th year of
Tempo. Date, 1835.
No. 106. Cake Dish, with three feet, Hirado
porcelain.
Covered with grayish-blue glaze, fine white clay, 8
inches in diameter. Made at Mikawachi, in the prov
ince of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 107. Incense Burner, square form, Hirado
porcelain.
Covered with blue glaze, and decorated with flowers
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chocolate glaze round the base, fine white clay, 2
inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 108. Incense Burner, with pierced cover
and sides, Hirado porcelain.
Cover pierced in form of chrysanthemum flower, and
sides pierced to represent a bamboo basket with three
reserve panels, The first panel decorated with a view
of Fujiyama ; the second with chrysanthemums and or
chids, and the third with a Chinese sage with boy
painted in blue under the glaze, the inside cylindrical
part decorated with Chinese sages painted in blue, fine
white clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1850.
No. 109. Writing Table Water Pot, in form
of drum, Hirado porcelain.
With blue-glazed top made in form of chrysanthe
mum flower, 2^ inches in height. Made at Mika
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 1 10. Saucer, in form of peach, Hirado
porcelain.
The body part covered with rich, brilliant brown
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clay, 3 inches in diameter. Made at Mikawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. in. Netsuke, in form of chrysanthemum,
Hirado porcelain.
Covered with blue glaze, and decorated with carved
lines under the glaze, fine white clay, 1 y inches in di
ameter. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 112. Sake Cup, Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with flowers and birds, painted in blue
under the glaze, fine white clay, 4 inches in height.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen, Date,
1800.
No. 113. Fire Bowl for smoker, Hirado porce
lain.
Decorated with flowers, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 6 inches in height. Made at
Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 114. Water Jar, Hirado porcelain.
Decorated with plum and chrysanthemum flowers
and long-tailed birds, and a butterfly painted in blue
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under the glaze, and in colors over the glaze, fine white
clay, 8 inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 115. Hanging Vase, Hirado porcelain.
Partly covered with brown, blue and white glazes,
and decorated with a pine-branch, a rock and grasses,
in raised design, fine white clay, 8 inches in height.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1700.

No. 116. Incense Box, rounded diamond
shape, Hirado porcelain .
Decorated with carved design of pine, plum, bamboo
and storks, and partly covered with white and brown
glazes, fine white clay, 3 inches by 55^ inches. Made
at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 117. Sake Bottle, with silver top, Hirado
porcelain.
Decorated with a dragon and tiger modeled in relief,
fine white clay, 10^ inches in height. Made at Mika
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.

Erita Mare.
No. 1 1 8 . Tea Bowl, Hirado porcelain.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with the
zodiac signs painted in blue under the glaze, reddish-
brown clay, i,y inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.
I
Hrita Mare, province of 1bi3en.
Arita ware, or Imari or Hizen ware, as it is
called in America and Europe, is made at
Arita, in the province of Hizen. The Arita
factory owes its origin to a Korean potter,
Risampei, who was brought over from Korea
in 1 598 by Prince Nabeshima, together with
several other potters.
These Korean potters were first located at
the foot of Kanatate mountain, about five miles
north of Saga, the provincial capital of Hizen,
by the prince's order, and here they established
a factory and made some pottery. It was re
moved toward the end of the Keicho period
(1 596-1 6 14) toaplace called Fujinokochi, in the
district of Matsura, as the result in pottery-
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making at Kanatate was unsatisfactory, but
it was not until Risampei discovered the fine
materials at Idsumiyama in Arita that he suc
ceeded in producing any good porcelain.
Since this discovery Arita began to be crowded
with potters, so that in 1637 there were 532
males and 294 females engaged in keramic in
dustry in and near Arita, and in 1 647 there were
155 kilns and 155 potter's wheels at work.
The products of Arita factories up to about
1640 were mostly blue-and-white porcelains
made after Chinese style, and an inferior kind
of celadon porcelains, but since Kakiyemon's
successful achievement in decorating with
colored enamels, much finer porcelains were
produced here.
Tsuji Kizayemon's discovery of the use of
saggars during the Kwambun period ( 1 66 1 -72)
was another step in the progress of Keramic
Art ; and finally, during the Tempo period
(1830- 1843), Hisadomi Yojibei, better known
by his nom de plume Zoshuntei Sampo, made
the egg-shell porcelains for the first time.
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Hirado, Karatsu, Nabeshima, Matsugatani,
Shiraishi, Utsutsugawa, Bogasaki, and Kame
yama factories of this province will be noticed
separately ; but Nangawara, Kuromuta, Ichi-
nose, Hirose, Hokao, and Obo factories will
be included under Arita factories, as they all
use the same materials and follow the same
methods as Arita proper.

No. 119. Sake Bottle, square shape, Imari
porcelain.
Decorated with the birds of paradise and the sacred
dogs in the center of the panels, which are sunken in
conventional diamond shape, and the chrysanthemum
flowers and peony flowers painted in blue under the
glaze, and in red and gold over the glaze, fine white
clay, 8y2 inches in height. Made at Arita, in the prov
ince of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 120. Incense Burner, Imari porcelain.
Rectangular form with handles, with perforated top,
decorated with chrysanthemum flowers and butterflies
painted in blue under the glaze, and in red and gold
and in enamels of purple and green over the glaze, fine
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white clay, 4 inches in height. Made at Arita, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 121. Incense Burner, Imari porcelain.
Rectangular form, with the perforated sides and top,
decorated with triple lozenge-shaped panels with relief
design of pine-trees, and floral scrolls painted in red and
gold, and in the enameled green and purple over the
glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches in height. Made at
Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 122. Sake Bottle, globular form, with
long, narrow neck, Imari porcelain .
Decorated with chrysanthemum flowers and butter
flies painted in blue under the glaze, and in red and
gold and yellow and green enamels over the glaze, fine
white clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at Arita, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 123. Rice Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with pine, plum, and bamboo, painted in
blue under the glaze, and in red over the glaze, fine
white clay, 5 inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in
the province of Hizen. Mark, Fuki Chomei (wealth,
position, and long life), painted in blue under the glaze.
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No. 124. Incense Burner, square form, Imari
porcelain .
Decorated with brocade design, painted in gold and
green and red enamels over the glaze, fine white clay,
¦$y inches in height. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 125. Incense Burner, flattened, round
shape, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with a flower on the top, painted in gold
and green and red enamels within a black circle on
white ground, and the remaining part painted in gold
and red over the glaze, fine white clay, 1 y inches in
height. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 126. Cake Dish, with three feet, Imari
porcelain .
Decorated with a brocade design of floral scrolls,
conventional waves, the sacred balls and rolls painted
in red and gold, and green and red enamels over the
glaze, fine white clay, 6y inches in diameter. Made
at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 127. Rice Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with creeping cherry flowers, painted in
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in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 128. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with the cherry flowers and iris painted in
gold, pink and red over the glaze, fine white clay, 6
inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 129. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with landscape in the inside, painted in
black, green, purple and red enamels, and with a dra
gon and bird of paradise pursuing the sacred balls, on
the outside, painted in gold and red and purple, green
and yellow enamels over the glaze, with conventional
key design for the lower border painted in blue1 under
the glaze, fine white clay, 8y inches in diameter.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Tai Min
Man reki Nin sei (made during Wanlieh period of great
Ming dynasty). Date, 1750.
No. 130. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with three medallions, with floral designs
in the inside, painted in blue under the glaze, and in
gold and red over the glaze, and with a scroll design of
chrysanthemums and leaves on the outside painted in
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over the glaze, fine white clay, 1 1 inches in diameter.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Fuku
(happiness), painted in blue under the glaze. Date,
1700.
No. 131. Hot-water Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with conventional design of rabbits in the
moon, painted in gold and red and dull green enamels
over the glaze on the outside, and in the center of the
inside a rabbit painted in blue under the glaze, fine
white clay, 3^ inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in
the province of Hizen. Mark, Tai Min Nin Sei (made
during the Ming dynasty). Date, 1750.

No. 132. Plate, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with peony flowers and rocks, painted in
blue under the glaze, and in gold and red and green,
purple and yellow enamels over the glaze, fine white
clay, 12^ inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 133. Incense Burner, with silver top,
Imari porcelain.
Decorated with floral scrolls, painted in gold, red and
green enamels over the glaze, and borders painted in
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blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in height.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 134. Sake Bottle, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with boys playing, with flower carriage
painted in gold and red, and black, green and yellow
enamels over the glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches in
height. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1750.
No. 135. Water Jar, cylindrical form, Imari
porcelain.
Decorated with standing storks among the reeds,
painted in black, green, blue and red enamels over the
glaze, and gold band round the rim, fine white clay.
The inside and bottom lacquered, 7 inches in diameter.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 1 36. Tea Cup, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with peony flowers, painted in gold, red and
green enamels within the heart-shaped panels of blue,
fine white clay, 2^ inches in height. Made at Arita,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 137. Incense Burner, Imari porcelain.
With cover and two handles, made in form of dog
foo, decorated with chrysanthemum flowers in high

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relief, painted in gold and red, green, blue and yellow
enamels over the glaze, in the front and on the back,
plum blossoms painted in gold, black and red over the
glaze, fine white clay, 5^ inches in height. Made at
Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 138. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with dog foo, and peony flowers, painted
in gold and red, and blue enamel over the glaze, with
border painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
6>y inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 139. Water Basin, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with three medallions with black border, in
which a hawk on a perch with curtains overhead is
painted in gold, red and black, and the rest of the surface
richly decorated with chrysanthemums and peony flow
ers painted in colors over the glaze, and in blue under
the glaze, fine white clay, 13^ inches in height. Made
at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 140. Vase, Imari porcelain.
Trumpet-shape, with silver filigree-work ornamenta
tion round the mouth, decorated with floral designs,
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painted in blue under the glaze, and in gold and colors
over the glaze, fine white clay, 23 inches in height.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 141. Rice Bowl, with cover, Imari porce
lain.
Decorated with a Chinese design of landscape with
figures, having some figures inclosed in red circular
medallions, painted in gold and enamel colors over the
glaze, fine white clay, 5 inches in diameter. Made at
Arita, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Man reki nen
sei (made during Wanlieh period), painted in blue under
the glaze. Date, 1750.
No. 142. Rice Bowl, with cover, Imari porce
lain.
Decorated with the New Year decoration, orange,
pine, charcoal, and noshi painted in gold and red and
black enamel over the glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches
in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 143. Sake Bottle, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with four panels, two of which are dec
orated with the design of dragon and tiger in relief, and
the other two with landscape painted in colors, and all
surrounded with floral border designs painted in gold

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and colors, fine white clay, 12 inches in height. Made
at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 144. Incense Box, double-clove shape,
Imari porcelain.
Decorated with two birds of paradise, and bands of
diamond on top, and diapers on the sides painted in
blue under the glaze, fine white clay, ^y inches in
diameter. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.
No. 145. Incense Box, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with the sacred books, hat, cloak, hammer,
etc., painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
2y2 inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 146. Water Jar, for writing desk, Imari
porcelain.
Decorated with a brocade design painted in blue
under the glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in diameter.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 147. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll design, painted in blue
under the glaze, fine white clay, 7^ inches in diameter.

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Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Tai Min
Sei-Ka Nen Sei (made during Ching Hwa period of
great Ming Dynasty). Date, 1 800.
No. 148. Tea Cup, in form of the morning-
glory, Imari porcelain.
Covered with blue glaze outside, and celadon glaze
inside with brown glazed rim, fine white clay, 2^
inches in diameter. Made at Arita, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 149. Sake Bottle, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll design painted in blue
under the glaze, hard gray clay, 14^ inches in height.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 150. Vase, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with pine, plum and bamboo design in
closed in a panel-like medallion on two sides, painted in
blue under the glaze, fine gray clay, 12^ inches in
height. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1600.
No. 151. Sake Bottle, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in blue under the
glaze, hard, sandy gray clay, 9^ inches in height.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1600.
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No. 152. Water Jar, melon shape, Imari
porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll design, painted in blue
under the glaze, fine gray clay, which is finely crackled,
8y inches in height. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 153. Tea Jar, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with sketchy floral scroll design, painted in
blue under the glaze, hard, sandy clay, 2y inches in
height. Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1600. Said to be a specimen made by Goroshichi.
No. 154. Sake Decanter, Imari porcelain.
Commonly known as Sei san bin, and especially
made by Tsui family for the Imperial Court, decorated
with birds of paradise painted in blue under the glaze,
fine white clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Arita, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1800. This is a speci
men of Gokushin-Yaki.
No. 155. Saucer, square form, Imari porce
lain.
Decorated with herons and reeds, left white on blue
ground, painted in blue under the glaze, fine white
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clay, 6% inches in diameter. Made at Nangawara, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 156. Plate, hexagon shape, Imari porce
lain.
Decorated with a horseman crossing a river, painted
in blue under the celadon glaze, fine white clay, 8 inches
in diameter. Made at Nangawara, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 157. Plate, square form, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll design in blue under the
crackled glaze, grayish- white clay, 9 inches in diameter.
Made at Kuromuta, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1750.
No. 158. Rice Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Egg-shell ware, decorated with eight vertical bands,
with floral design painted in blue under the glaze, fine
white clay, 3^ inches in diameter. Made by Sampo at
Arita, in the province of Hizen. Mark, Zoshuntei Sampo
Tsuru (made by Sampo at Zoshuntei), painted in blue
under the glaze. Date, 1840.
No. 159. Saucer, Imari porcelain.
Egg-shell ware, decorated with the bird and iris,
painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 5 inches

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in diameter. Made at Arita by Sampo, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1840.
No. 160. Saucer, Imari porcelain.
Egg-shell ware, decorated with birds and flowers,
painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, *,y
inches in diameter. Made by Sampo at Arita, in the
province of Hizen. Mark, Zoshuntei Sampo Tsukuru
(made by Sampo at Zoshuntei). Date, 1840.
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flbatsugatani Mare, province of 1bi3en.
Matsugatani factory was established during
the Kioho period (1716-35), at the country-
seat of the chief of the castle of Ogi, a branch
house of Prince Nabeshima, and only existed
for a short period of about fifty years.
The potters engaged at this factory were
from Arita, and Arita materials were also used.
The porcelains made here are very artistic
and beautiful, like Nabeshima ware. Very
few specimens are in existence. They are
mostly blue-and-white, celadon and plain
white ware.

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No. 161. Plate, Matsugatani porcelain.
Decorated with herons standing in water by reeds,
painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 7^
inches in diameter. Made at Matsugatani kiln, of Ogi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1720.

Sbiraisbi Mare, province of 1bi3en.
The origin of this factory is unknown, but
it is probable that it was established some
time during the seventeenth century, when
several factories were started in the province.
It was revived during the Ansei period (1854-
59) by Soha, a Kioto potter, who came to
Shiraishi at its owner's request. The products
of this factory are blue and white, made after
Kioto style, the decorated porcelains after
Yeiraku style, and the crackled celadon after
Nabeshima style. The clay used at this fac
tory was a mixture of local and Amakusa
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No. 162. Water Jar, square form, Shiraishi
porcelain.
Decorated with horses and Chinese characters, painted
in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 7 inches in
height. Made at Shiraishi by Soha, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1850.
No. 163. Plate, in form of plum flower, Shi
raishi porcelain.
Decorated with flower in center, painted in blue under
the glaze, and covered with crackled pale-gray glaze,
hard gray clay, 7 inches in diameter. Made at Shiraishi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1850.
No. 164. Bowl, Shiraishi porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in blue under the
pinkish-gray glaze, gray clay, 5 inches in diameter.
Made at Shiraishi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 165. Plate, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with net design, painted in blue under the
glaze, and with chocolate glaze over the glaze for the
rim, fine white clay, 8y inches in diameter. Made by
Kakiyemon at Nangawara, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1650. 95

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No. 1 66. Plate, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll design, and four Chinese
letters in the center painted in blue under the glaze,
fine white clay, 8y2 inches in diameter. Made by Kaki
yemon at Nangawara, in the province of Hizen. Mark,
the character Kai, painted in blue under the glaze. Date,
1650.
No. 167. Sake Bottle, Imari porcelain.
With silver rim round the mouth, decorated with
peony flowers and rocks painted in red, blue, green and
yellow enamel colors over the glaze, fine white clay, 95^
inches in height. Made by Kakiyemon at Nangawara,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 168. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with three coiled dragons in the inside and
birds and flowers on the outside, painted in gold, red-
and-green, blue-and-yellow enamels over the glaze,
with chocolate glaze round the rim, fine white clay, 8y
inches in diameter. Made by Kakiyemon at Nangawara,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 169. Bowl, square form, Imari porce
lain.
Decorated with a floral design, painted in colors and
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the rim, fine white clay, \y2 inches in diameter. Made
by Kakiyemon at Nangawara, in the province of Hizen.
Mark, character " Fuku " (happiness), painted in dull red
over the glaze. Date, 1700.

No. 170. Plate, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with landscape with two figures in the
center surrounded by eight fan-shaped panels, each of
which is decorated with flowers and figures painted in
five enamel colors over the glaze, fine white clay, 12^
inches in diameter. Made by Kakiyemon at Nangawara,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1700.
No. 171. Incense Box, Imari porcelain.
Gourd shape, decorated with diapers and medallions,
painted in blue under the glaze, made after the famous
Shonsui incense box called " the Torisashi," fine white
clay, 2 inches in height. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1650.
No. 172. Bowl, Imari porcelain.
Decorated with diapers round the inner border, and
with a dog foo in the center, painted in blue under the
glaze, hard, coarse gray clay, 3^ inches in diameter.
Made at Arita, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1600.
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mabesbima Mare, province of 1bi3en.
This is the name by which the ware made
at the private kilns of Prince Nabeshima at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen, is known.
Nabeshima ware is much finer in clay as well
as workmanship than Imari or Arita ware,
and is held in higher estimation by Japanese.
The factory or works were under the local
government of the prince, and the product
was placed at his disposal, its private sale
being strictly prohibited.
The most of the pieces turned out at this
factory were marked with a design around
the base like the teeth of a comb, and this
variety is known as the Kushide (the comb
style). Among many kinds of porcelains made here,
the plain celadon and crackled celadon are
especially admired by our connoisseurs. The
plain celadons are lighter in tone than most
of the Chinese celadons, and are often orna
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celadons are darker and richer in tone than
the plain celadons, and have larger crackles
showing blackish veins.
The enameled Nabeshima porcelains are
also greatly admired for their highly artistic
qualities. The distinguishing feature of the
enameled Nabeshima is its red color, which
is lighter red, more like orange-red, and the
designs are generally very simple and refined.
No. 173. Rice Bowl, Nabeshima porcelain.
The outside covered with dark-brown glaze, and in
side with the crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
three medallions of flowers painted in blue under the
glaze, hard white clay, 3 inches in height and 5 inches
in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 174. Incense Burner, Nabeshima porce
lain.
Dome-shaped, with cover and sides pierced through
with Genji design, and decorated with floral design
painted in enamel colors over the glaze, fine white clay,
4 inches in height. Made at Okawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1820.

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No. 175. Ash Bowl for smoker, cylindrical
form, with cover, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with delicately executed landscape, painted
in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 4 inches in
height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 176. Sake Bottle, with top, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with chrysanthemums and other flowers,
painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 9^
inches in height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1850.
No. 177. Incense Burner, Nabeshima porce
lain.
Decorated with the Nabeshima crests surrounded by
floral scroll, painted in gold over the glaze, fine white
clay, 1 y inches in height. Made at Okawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 178. Saucer, with raised base, Nabe
shima porcelain.
Decorated with conventional waves, painted in blue
under the glaze, with two fan-shaped spaces within
which floral designs are painted in blue under and red

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over the glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches in diameter.
Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1830.
No. 179. Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with orchids, painted in red over and in
blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 2^ inches in
height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.
No. 180. Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with flowers, painted in red over and in
blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 2^ inches in
height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.
No. 181. Sake Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with plum flowers, painted in gold and
red over and in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
2y inches in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 182. Sake Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with maple branches, painted in gold and
red over and in blue under, the glaze, fine white clay,
2% inches in height. Made at Okawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1800.
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No. 183. Saucer, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with baskets and cherry flowers, painted in
red over and in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 6
inches in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Comb mark. Date, 1800.

No. 184. Plate, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with narcissus, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 8y inches in diameter. Made
at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Comb mark.
Date, 1850.
No. 185. Bead, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll, painted in red over and
in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 1 inch in di
ameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.

No. 186. Netsuke, egg shape, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with the dog foo and peony flower, painted
in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 2 inches in
diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.

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No. 187. Bowl, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with wistaria, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in height. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 188. Bowl, hexagon shape, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with floral scroll, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in height. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 189. Sake Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with a night scene, ducks flying in the
moonlight over a field painted in blue under the glaze,
fine white clay, 3 inches in diameter. Made at Oka
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1850.

No. 190. Traveling Cups, nest of seven cups,
Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with pine, plum and bamboo, painted in
blue under the glaze, fine white clay. Made at Oka
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

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No. 191. Water Jar, for writing desk, Na
beshima porcelain.
Decorated with chrysanthemums, painted in blue
under the glaze, and with chrysanthemum flowers in
relief round the mouth and the central opening under
the glaze, fine white clay, 1 y inches in diameter. Made
at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 192. Writing-table Screen, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches in diameter. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 193. Writing-table Screen, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in blue under the
glaze, and with dark purplish-blue border, fine white
clay, 7 inches in height. Made at Okawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 194. Sake Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with bamboo, painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 1 inch in height. Made at Oka
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
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No. 195. Sake Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with birds, animals, fish, etc., painted in
blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 2^ inches in
diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.
No. 196. Tea Cup, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with cherry flowers, painted in blue under
the glaze, fine white clay, 3 y2 inches in diameter. Made
at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.
No. 197. Tea Bowl, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in blue under the
grayish-white crackled glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches
in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 198. Cake Stand, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with young pines and ferns, painted in blue
under the pale-blue glaze, fine white clay, 8 inches in
diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 199. Plate, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with birds on a branch of a tree by river,
painted in blue under and in red-and-green, yellow-and-

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black enamels over the glaze, fine white clay, 6 inches
in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Comb mark. Date, 1750.

No. 200. Plate, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with cherry flowers and wheels, painted in
blue under and in red and yellow and green enamels
over the glaze, fine white clay, 6 inches in diameter.
Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Comb
mark. Date, 1800.

No. 201. Plate, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with chrysanthemums, painted in blue
under, and in red and yellow and green enamels over, the
glaze, fine white clay, 8 inches in diameter. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Comb mark. Date,
1800.

No. 202. Sake Bottle, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with landscape in a medallion, painted in
blue under the glaze, and covered with crackled celadon
glaze, fine white clay, 9 inches in height. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 17 "50.
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No. 203. Ash Bowl for smoker, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Decorated with white stripes and covered with rich
celadon glaze, fine white clay, 3^ inches in height.
Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1750.
No. 204. Vase, trumpet-shape, Nabeshima
porcelain.
Covered with rich celadon glaze, 9^ inches in height.
Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1750.
No. 205. Vase, Nabeshima porcelain.
Cylindrical form, with short small neck, covered with
celadon glaze, fine white clay, 12 inches in height.
Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 206. Cake Stand, Nabeshima porcelain.
Decorated with flowers in the center, painted in red
and yellow over the glaze, and with border of chrysanthe
mum in a conventional form in relief under the glaze,
and covered with light celadon glaze, fine white clay,
1 1 y inches in diameter. Made at Okawachi, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1800.107

fllMnato Mare.
"Ikasama Mare, province of Ibitacbi.
Kasama ware is made at Kasama, in the
province of Hitachi. The products of this
factory are not common, and show a great
skill in workmanship. It is not known when
it was established. There is another factory
at Mito, in the same province, where several
varieties of pottery are said to have been
made.

No. 207. Sake Bottle, Kasama stoneware.
With narrow neck and swelling body, covered with a
dark-brown glaze, with bluish-gray glaze running round
the neck, dark-reddish clay, 8y inches in height. Made
at Kasama, in the province of Hitachi. Date, 1800.

fllMnato Mare, province of llOsumi.
Minato ware is made at Minato, a village
near Sakai, in the province of Idsumi, and it

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is said that the factory was first established
here many centuries ago. According to some
antiquarians, Giyoki, who introduced the pot
ter's wheel, worked at this factory, and gave
the potters instructions in Keramic Art, but
the best authorities seem to doubt this fact.
The ash bowls made of soft and brittle clay
were produced here during the Tensho period
(1573-91), and they were used by the tea ama
teurs, and were much admired by them. To
ward the latter part of the last century, a
certain Kioto potter came to this place, and
produced the thin glazed ware in imitation
of the Cochin China pottery.

No. 208. Water Jar, Minato faience.
Covered with a rich yellow glaze, fine soft yellowish-
gray clay, fy inches in height. Made at Minato, in the
province of Idsumi. Mark, Senshiu Sakai Hon Minato
Yaki Kichiyemon, impressed (the original Minato ware
made by Kichiyemon at Minato of Sakai in Idsumi).
Date, 1 800.

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No. 209. Incense Box, turnip-form, Minato
faience.
The leaf covered with green glaze, and the body with
white glaze, fine soft yellowish clay, 3 inches in length
and 1 inch in width. Made at Minato, in the province
of Idsumi. Mark, Minato, impressed. Date, 1750.
No. 210. Tea Bowl, Minato faience.
Covered with an ashy black glaze, fine soft yellowish-
gray clay, 5 inches in diameter. Made at Minato, in the
province of Idsumi. Mark, Minato, impressed. Date,
1750.

flosumo Mare, province of flosumo.
Under the name of Idsumo ware we include
Giozan ware and Fujina ware. Giozan ware
was made at Giozan in Matsuye, where a kiln
was erected by Kurasaki Gonbei, and his pu
pil Kada Hanroku, who were called from Hagi
in Nagato by the Lord of Idsumo in the fifth
year of Yenpo, 1677.

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The early examples of Giozan ware are dif
ficult to distinguish from Hagi wares, for the
clay and glaze brought over by the two pot
ters were used in making pottery, and there
are many connoisseurs who mistake the early
Idsumo for the old Hagi ware.
The kiln was closed for several years since
the death of Gonbei in 1694, and was reop
ened by Nagaoka Jiuzayemon in the first year
of Kioho, 1 7 16. In 1758 (the sixth year of
Horeki), Tsuchiya Zenshiro enlarged the kiln
and gave the name of Fujina to his produc
tions. He marked his wares with a stamp of
letter Zen in hexagon. Zenshiro was a skilful
potter, and besides having an artistic patron in
Fumai, the Lord of Idsumo, who was the great
est art connoisseur of his time, he was en
abled to display his talent to its full extent.
Among the later productions of Idsumo kiln,
we have to notice those beautiful pieces dec
orated in enamels over the rich yellow glaze ;
always graceful in form and highly artistic in
design.

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No. 211. Tea Bowl, Idsumo faience.
Covered with a brilliant yellow crackled glaze, soft
fine gray clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made at Matsuye,
in the province of Idsumo. Date, 1870.

No. 212. Tea Bowl, Idsumo faience.
Covered with, gray glaze, and decorated with flowers
painted in colors over the glaze, fine grayish-brown clay,
4 inches in diameter. Made at Matsuye, in the province
of Idsumo. Date, 1800.

No. 213. Plate, square shape, made in imi
tation of basket work, Idsumo faience.
Covered with yellowish-brown glaze in the center,
and green glaze round the border, and decorated with
relief design of bamboo basket work under the glaze,
hard, fine gray clay, 6y inches square. Made at Fu
jina, in the province of Idsumo. Mark, Ki, impressed.
Date, 1800.

No. 214. Saucer, Idsumo faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with a sketchy
design of a bridge and birds painted in blue under the
glaze, hard, fine gray clay, ^y inches in diameter.
Made at Fujina, in the province of Idsumo. Date, 1850.
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flosumo Mare.
No. 215. Plate, shell-shape, Idsumo faience.
Covered with green-and-yellow glaze, fine, hard gray
clay, iy inches in diameter. Mark, Ki, impressed.
Date, 1800.
No. 216. Tea Jar, gourd-shape, Idsumo fai
ence.
Covered with rich chocolate glaze, soft, fine gray
clay, 2y inches in height. Made at Matsuye, in the prov
ince of Idsumo. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.
No. 217. Tea Jar, Idsumo faience.
Covered with yellow-and-brown glaze, gray clay, 3 y
inches in height. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.
No. 218. Tea Jar, Idsumo faience.
Covered with a brilliant purplish-brown glaze, fine
bluish-gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Giozan,
in the province of Idsumo. Date, 1750.
No. 219. Tea Jar, Idsumo faience.
Covered with yellowish-brown glaze, reddish-gray
clay, 2y inches in height. Made at Fujina, in the prov
ince of Idsumo. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1750.
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Banfco Mare.
No. 220. Tea Jar, Idsumo faience.
Covered with a brilliant yellowish-brown glaze, soft
gray clay, 4^ inches in height. Made at Fujina, in the
province of Idsumo. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1850.
No. 22 1 . Vase with two ears, Idsumo faience.
Covered with a rich dark-brown glaze, mixed with
white streaks, fine brownish-gray clay, 9^ inches in
height. Made at Giozan, in the province of Idsumo.
Date, 1750.
No. 222. Tea Bowl, Idsumo faience.
Covered inside with finely crackled creamy glaze, and
outside with finely crackled mustard glaze, fine gray
clay, 6 inches in diameter. Made at Giozan, in the prov
ince of Idsumo. Date, 1700.

Banfto Mare, province of Use.
Banko ware is said to have been first made
by Numanami Gozayemon, a wealthy mer
chant and an amateur in the tea ceremony,
at his kiln in Ofuke, a small village in the

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province of Ise, during Genbum period 1736-
1740. He was very skilful in making the
Raku ware, and wonderfully clever in making
copies of old Cochin china and old Dutch
wares. Being an amateur potter, he was not in the
habit of selling his wares, but it is said that
he used to give away whenever his friends
admired and wanted his ware. He was
summoned to Yedo (Tokio of our time) by
the Shogun's government in the sixth year
of Tenmei (1786), where he took up his resi
dence in Kommemura, and devoted himself
exclusively to making pottery. He marked
his wares with the stamp of Banko, which
was taken from an old Chinese quotation,
Banko Fuyeki (unchangeable forever).
He learned the secret of using Chinese
enamel colors from Nakazawa Namiyemon
during Anyei period, 1772-80. His wares
were much admired, and are greatly valued.
His productions are known as old Banko.
He did not transmit his art to his descendants.

Banko Mare.
About a century later Mori Yusetsu, whose
father was a waste-paper buyer, found among
some waste paper, the receipts for glazes used
by the old Banko, and this discovery influ
enced him to become a potter himself, in
order to preserve the above receipts from
being lost to the world. He worked very
hard at first, day and night, and succeeded
in his work. He was the first potter in Japan
who made tea pots with molds after Chi
nese Baccara ware. He received permission
in the second year of Tempo (1831), from a
grandson of Gozayemon, to use the stamp
of Banko for his wares, and from that time
he used that mark for his wares as well as
that of Banko Yusetsu. His tea pots are
thinner than the Chinese originals, and more
artistic in every way. His brother Fuyeki,
whose common name was Yohei, was also a
good potter, and his wares are signed with
the stamp of Banko Fuyeki. The handles
of Yusetsu's tea pots are square-shaped, and
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Banko Mare.
Takegawa Chikusai, a relative of Gozaye-
mon, opened a kiln af Isawa, his native vil
lage, since Gozayemon's death, and made
some tolerably good pottery mostly with the
materials left by Gozayemon. Some of the
productions of his kiln are marked with the
Banko stamp, and some with that of Isawa.
Banko ware of the present day is mostly
made at Yokkaichi, a seaport town in Ise,
and only a small proportion is made at
Kuwana.
No. 223. Sake Bottle, Banko faience.
Covered with green, purple, and white glaze, and
decorated with incised design of the sacred ball and
flower under the glaze, reddish-brown clay, 8y inches
in height. Made at Kuwana, in the province of Ise.
Mark, Banko, impressed. Date, 1750.
No. 224. Bowl, Banko faience.
Covered with rich dark-brown glaze, and decorated
with flying storks, painted in black, red, and white
enamels over the glaze, reddish-brown clay, 5 inches in
diameter. Made at Kuwana, in the province of Ise.
Mark, Nippon Yusetsu, impressed. Date, 1850.

Banko Mare.
No. 225. Sake Decanter, Banko faience.
Covered with dark-brown glaze, and decorated with
flying storks and floral medallions in relief under the
glaze, dark-brown clay, 7 inches in height. Made at
Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Mark, Banko, im
pressed. Date, 1850.
No. 226. Tea Bowl, Banko faience.
Covered with pinkish-clay crackled glaze, decorated
with birds and flowers, roughly painted in red and green
under the glaze, pinkish-gray clay, 3^ inches in diam
eter. Made at Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Mark,
Banko, impressed. Date, 1750.
No. 227. Sake Bottle, Banko faience.
Covered with tea-color glaze over the top and base,
with gray glaze in the middle, and decorated with flow
ers painted in green, white, and yellow enamels over
the glaze, with the red bands above and below, reddish-
gray clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Kuwana, in the
province of Ise. Mark, Banko, impressed. Date, 1750.
No. 228. Tea Cup, Banko faience.
Decorated with flowers painted in green, pink, white,
and yellow enamels on the unglazed surface, and cov
ered with creamy-white glaze in the inside, reddish clay,
2y inches in diameter. Made at Kuwana, in the prov
ince of Ise. Mark, Banko, impressed. Date, 1850.

Banko Mare.
No. 229. Sake Decanter, Banko faience.
Annular in form with a short neck, decorated with
cherry flowers painted in red, white, and yellow en
amels, and gourd vine with a gourd painted in green,
white, and yellow enamels over the unglazed surface,
reddish-brown clay, 8y inches in height. Made at
Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Mark, Yusetsu, im
pressed. Date, 1850.
No. 230. Fire Bowl, for smoker, Banko
faience.
Covered with bluish-green glaze, finely crackled and
decorated with scattered medallions painted in black,
blue, green, pink, red, white, and yellow enamels, red
dish-gray clay, 4y inches in height. Made at Kuwana,
in the province of Ise. Mark, Banko, impressed. Date,
1850.
No. 231. Tea Bowl, Banko faience.
Covered with rich dark-brown mustard glaze, and
gilded inside, reddish-gray clay, <^y inches in diameter,
Made at Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Mark, Banko.
impressed. Date, 1750.
No. 232. Tea Jar, Banko faience.
Covered with iron-rust glaze, gray clay, 2^ inches
in height. Made at Isawa, in the province of Ise. Mark,
Isawa, impressed. Date, 1850. 119

Banko Mare.
No. 233. Sake Bottle, Banko faience.
The body of the bottle covered with crackled green
glaze, and the neck with creamy crackled glaze, deco
rated with conventional Greek fret, and wave designs in
red over the glaze, fine reddish-gray clay, 6y inches in
height. Made at Isawa, in the province of Ise. Mark,
Anto, impressed. Date, 1830.
No. 234. Cake Plate, square shape, with the
corners taken off, Banko faience.
Covered with rich green glaze, and decorated with a
chrysanthemum flower in a corner, painted in purple
enamel, fine white clay, 6 inches in diameter. Made at
Isawa, in the province of Ise. Mark, Anto, impressed.
Date, 1830.
No. 235. Writing-brush Stand, square shape,
slightly tapering toward the bottom,
Banko faience.
Covered with cracked gray glaze, with splashes of
light-brown, dark-gray clay, 4 inches in height. Made
at Isawa, in the province of Ise. Mark, Anto, impressed.
Date, 1870.
No. 236. Water Pot, Banko faience.
Covered with pinkish-gray glaze, finely crackled and
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flaa Mare.
colored enamels, and silver over the glaze, fine gray
clay, 6 inches in height. Made at Kuwana, in the prov
ince of Ise. Mark, Banko, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 236A. Tea Bowl, Banko faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze on the outside, and
with crackled green glaze inside, and decorated with
circular lines painted in red over the glaze, fine gray
clay, j\y inches in height, and 3^ inches in diameter.
Made at Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Mark, Banko,
impressed. Date, 1800.

flga Mare, province of flga.
This ware is made at Marubashira, in the
province of Iga, and it is said that some pot
tery was made here as early as Kenbu period
(1334-37), but the early productions were
common household articles, and it is only
since the time of the great Yenshiu, who in
structed some potters here to make some tea
bowls, etc., for him, that any artistic pieces
were made at this factory. 121

flga Mare.
Those specimens made under Yenshiu's
instructions are known as Yenshiu Iga, and
are much admired by Japanese connoisseurs.
Another variety of Iga ware, known as
Todo Iga, was made by the order of Prince
Todo, the Lord of Iga, and the specimens of
this variety are also held in high estimation.
Iga ware in general resembles that of Shi-
garaki of Omi so closely that many mistake
one for the other. But there is a difference.
Iga ware is made of a harder and heavier clay
than Shigaraki. There is also a peculiar yel
low glaze used in Iga, which does not appear
in Shigaraki ware. Of many Iga potters,
Shinjiro, who marked his ware with the char
acter of Shin in the running style, is the most
noted artist, and his pieces are much valued.

No. 237. Tea Jar, Iga stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant yellowish-brown glaze, hard,
sandy red clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Marubashira,
in the province of Iga. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1650.

Soma Mare.
No. 238. Tea Jar, Iga stoneware.
Covered with a pale grayish-blue glaze, hard, sandy
gray clay, 31^ inches in height. Made at Marubashira,
in the province of Iga. Date, 1850.
No. 239. Tea Bowl, Iga stoneware.
Covered with a pale, purplish-gray glaze, hard, sandy
dark-gray clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made at Maruba
shira, in the province of Iga. Mark, Kio, impressed.
Date, 1700.

Soma Mare, province of flwaki.
Soma ware, so called after the family name
of a daimio of the province of Iwaki, was first
made at the factory situated in Nakamura
during the Keian period, 1 648-5 1 . The ware
is generally made of a hard clay, and thinly
glazed, showing small black specks. The
earliest specimens are undecorated, but the
earlier ones are often decorated with the de
sign of a galloping horse, after the drawing
by Kano Naonobu, one of the distinguished

Soma Mare.
artists of the famous Kano school, which was
especially painted for Prince Soma by Nao
nobu at his request. Sometimes a circular
device of nine balls, the family crest of Soma,
is added to the above design. Of other vari
eties of its products, that of the granulated
glaze ought to be mentioned as a favorite
of this factory.
No. 240. Tea Bowl, Soma stoneware.
The outside covered with a dull gray glaze, and dec
orated with a galloping horse, painted in brown, and
the inside covered with a crackled celadon glaze, sandy
gray clay, 4^ inches in diameter, and 3 inches in
height. Made at Nakamura, in the province of Iwaki.
Date, 1800.
No. 241. Tea Bowl, Soma stoneware.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze, over which a bluish-
brown glaze is applied round the rim, and decorated
with a tethered horse on the outside, and a galloping
horse in the center in relief, sandy gray clay, 4 inches in
diameter, and 3 y2 inches in height. Made at Nakamura,
in the province of Iwaki. Mark, Soma, impressed.
Date, 1850. 124

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No. 242. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Soma
stoneware.
Covered with a gray glaze, and decorated with five
galloping horses, painted in brown, and with a reddish-
brown glaze running from the mouth, sandy gray clay,
ioy inches in height. Made at Nakamura, in the
province of Iwaki. Date, 1800.

No. 243. Small Bottle, gourd-shape, Soma
stoneware.
The upper part covered with a dark-brown glaze, and
the lower part with the brown granulated glaze, hard
gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Nakamura,
in the province of Iwaki. Date, 1800.

No. 244. Vase, cylindrical in shape, Soma
stoneware.
Covered with a deep greenish-gray glaze, with red
dish streaks round the mouth, and decorated with sea-
shells in high relief, covered with a dull-red glaze, and
the sea water inlaid with white, sandy gray clay, 10^
inches in height. Made at Nakamura, in the province
of Iwaki. Date, 1850. 125

fIDatsuvama Mare.
No. 245. Vase, cylindrical in shape, with a
short spreading mouth, Soma stoneware.
Covered with a rose glaze with black speckles, red
dish-gray clay, 1 1 inches in height. Made at Nakamura,
in the province of Iwaki. Date, 1800.

flDatsuvama Mare, province of flva
Matsuyama ware is made at Matsuyama,
in the province of Iyo, and the older speci
mens look like Akahada ware. It has usually
the impressed mark of Suyehiroyama. Lately
beautiful ivory-white porcelain is made in
this province.
No. 246. Tea Bowl, Matsuyama stoneware.
Covered with green, mustard and gray glazes thickly
applied, sandy gray clay, 5 inches in diameter, and 2^
inches in height. Made at Matsuyama, in the province
of Iyo. Mark, Suyehiroyoma. Date, 1800.

©bi Mare.

©M Mare, province of Ikaga.
Ohi ware is one of Raku wares made at
Ohi, in the province of Kaga. The factory
was built during the Tenwa period (1681-83),
by Chozayemon, a brother of Raku Kichiza-
yemon (Ichinu), fourth of the famous Raku
family of Kioto. The products of this factory
are mostly tea bowls, tea jars, etc. , made for
the use of the tea clubs. It is made of a little
harder and finer clay than other Raku wares,
and covered with a yellowish-red glaze, hav
ing Ame-like appearance, and it is commonly
known as the Ohi Ame glaze. It is held in a
high estimation by the tea amateurs. The
older specimens are often marked with a
spiral incised under the glaze, but since the
time of the fourth Chozayemon they are
marked with Ohi seal, stamped. There are
several kilns in the village now, and they are
mostly engaged in making ordinary domestic
wares.

©foi Mare.
No. 247. Tea Bowl, Ohi faience.
Covered with a reddish-brown glaze, and decorated
with a spiral mark, soft reddish-gray clay, 4^ inches in
diameter, and 3^ inches in height. Made by Choza
yemon at Ohi, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1700.

No. 248. Tea Bowl, Ohi faience.
Covered with a yellowish-red glaze, and decorated
with a spiral mark, soft reddish-gray clay, 4^ inches in
diameter, and 3 inches in height. Made by Chozaye
mon at Ohi, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1700.

No. 249. Tea Bowl, Ohi faience.
Covered with thick flambe glaze of white and green
over thin red glaze, fine soft reddish clay, <^y inches in
diameter, and $y inches in height. Made at Ohi, in
the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.

No. 250. Tea Bowl, Ohi faience.
Covered with rich brown glaze, fine soft gray clay, 5
inches in diameter, and 3 inches in height. Made at
Ohi, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1 800.

flmtani Mare.
No. 25 1 . Plate, leaf-shape, Ohi faience.
Covered with reddish-yellow glaze, and decorated
with purplish-black splashes, soft reddish clay, 4 by 8
inches. Made at Ohi, in the province of Kaga. Mark,
Ohi. Date, 1800.

flmtani Mare, province of Ikaga.
Kutani ware, or Kaga ware, as it is com
monly called, is either the porcelain or pot
tery produced at Kutani factory in the village
of Kutani, in the province of Kaga.
This factory was established during the
Kwanyei period (1624-42), by Tamura Gonza-
yemon under instructions from Lord Mayeda,
the chief of the Castle of Daishoji in Kaga,
and tea bowls, jars, etc., were made after the
Seto method.
The porcelains made after the same method
as that of Arita, were first produced here by
Goto Saijiro, the famous Kutani potter, after
his return from Hizen about 1650. He was
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sent to Hizen by Lord Mayeda to learn the se
cret process of porcelain-making and enamel
painting, and he succeeded in doing this by
becoming one of the workmen of Kakiyemon,
the famous potter of Nangawara, and by mar
rying his daughter, thus persuading Kakiye
mon that he intended to settle and live in this
place for life.
After his return, Kutani ware was much im
proved, and in addition the celebrated artist
Kusumi Morikage, who came to Kaga about
this time, gave designs for decorating porcelain
and pottery, and since this Kutani ware has
been much admired.
The pieces decorated with his designs are
known as Morikage designs, and are greatly
prized for the beauty of the outlines and the
artistic treatment of colors.
Kutani ware decorated in gold and red, much
admired by some in America and Europe, is
comparatively modern, as the first specimens
of this were produced in 1 8 14 by Hachiroye-
mon, a potter who worked at the new factory
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in Yamashiromura, a neighboring village of
Kutani. For this reason, the new style here described
came to be known as Hachiroye Kinran, and
for a time attracted a good deal of attention,
but it is not valued as much as the older
specimens. Yeiraku Zengoro (the third), known as
Wazen, the famous Kioto potter, visited the
Kutani factory in 1858, where he was invited
by two fellow-artists of that place who desired
him to settle down in the village to pursue his
artistic occupation, but owing to some circum
stance he made a short stay, and returned to
his native city of Kioto.
A few specimens made by him during his
stay here are greatly prized by our collectors,
as they are very rare and interesting, being
different from his works made in Kioto and
other places.
Besides those already mentioned, I must
not fail to mention the potters Sosentei Ichizo,
Shozo, and Tomozo, whose productions are
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much admired for their artistic as well as
technical excellence.
There are two kinds of clay used in Kutani
ware. The porcelain is usually coarser than
that of Arita, and the glaze is rather opaque
and heavy in appearance.
The faience is much softer, though coarser
than that of Satsuma or even Kioto, and the
glaze is not as fine as either of them.

No. 252. Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with red, silver and gold strips, painted over
the white glaze, fine white clay, 8y inches in diameter,
and 2y inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the prov
ince of Kaga. Date, 1850.

No. 253. Covered Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with brocade design, painted in blue under
the glaze, and in gold and red over the glaze, reddish-
gray clay, ^y inches in diameter, and 4 inches in height.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark, Nanka
Kutani sei (made at Kutani, in southern Kaga), painted
in blue under the glaze. Date, 1850.
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No. 254. Vase, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a bronze pattern with two Chinese
characters in circles, which express the wish "May you
enjoy long life," painted in blue under the glaze, fine
white clay, 1 5 inches in height, and ^y inches in diame
ter. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark,
Kayo Kutani Kankwado sei, painted in blue under the
glaze. Date, 1850.

No. 255. Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a Howo and Shishi design, painted
with the colored enamels and gold over the glaze, and
in blue under the glaze, hard gray clay, 7 inches in diam
eter, 3 y inches in height. Made by Yeiraku at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Mark, Kutani oite Yeiraku
Tsukuru (made by Yeiraku at Kutani), painted in black
enamel over the glaze. Date, 1858.

No. 256. Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a plum tree painted in brown and
silver, and with border decoration of brocade pattern
painted in gold and silver, fine white clay, 4 inches in
diameter, and 2^ inches in height. Made at Kutani, in
the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.

flmtani Mare.
No. 257. Water Jar, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in colored enamels
over the glaze, fine white clay, 8 inches in height, and
7 y2 inches in diameter. Made at Kutani , in the province
of Kaga. Mark, Fuku. Date, 1700.
No. 258. Incense Burner, square shape, Ku
tani porcelain.
Decorated with four medallions with landscape and
floral designs painted in red, yellow, and green enamels
over the glaze, fine white clay, 2 inches in diameter and
height. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date,
1800.
No. 259. Sake Bottle, ring-shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with Wistaria flowers and leaves in green-
and-purple enamels, and ornamented with delicate
traceries in dull red, white clay, 7^ inches in height.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.
No. 260. Sake Bottle, with swelling body
and narrow neck, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with various decorated strips, painted in
red, green, and yellow enamels over the glaze, fine white
clay, 10 inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the prov
ince of Kaga. Date, 1700. 134

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No. 261. Incense Box, square shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with brocade design, painted in gold, green,
and red over the glaze, fine white clay, 1 y inches in di
ameter. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date,
1850.
No. 262. Incense Box, gourd-shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape, painted in green, purple,
yellow, and red enamels over the glaze, fine white clay,
2y2 inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the province
of Kaga. Date, 1750.
No. 263. Incense Burner, square shape, Ku
tani porcelain.
Decorated with four panels, with figure painted in col
ored enamels, and with fine diaper border decoration,
fine white clay, 3 inches in height, and 2^ inches in
diameter. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga.
Date, 1800.
No. 264. Tea Jar, cylindrical shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with bamboo, pine, and plum design, and
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green, purple, and red enamels over the glaze, fine white
clay, 3 inches in height, and 2*/2 inches in diameter.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.

No. 265. Incense Burner, rectangular shape,
Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with bamboo, pine, and plum design, painted
in red, green, and purple enamels, and ornamented with
red-and-white square pattern border decoration, fine
white clay, 2^ by 2y inches. Made at Kutani, in the
province of Kaga. Date, 1750.
No. 266. Tea Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with peony flowers and butterflies, painted
in red, blue, green, and yellow enamels over the crackled
glaze, fine white clay, ?,y inches in diameter, and 2y
inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the province of
Kaga. Mark, Kutani, painted. Date, 1850.
No. 267. Incense Box, square shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with minutely painted landscape in black,
purple, and yellow enamels over the glaze, fine white
clay, 2 inches square. Made at Kutani, in the province
of Kaga. Mark, Bunsei Fuku. Date, 1820.
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No. 268. Tea Jar, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with water-mark, painted in silver over the
red-white clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Kutani, in
the province of Kaga. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1850.

No. 269. Rice Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with two crests of Prince of Kaga in silver
on the fine circular decoration, painted in red over the
glaze, fine white clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made at
Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1800.

No. 270. Incense Burner, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a dragon rising out of the sea, painted
in gold and silver on the enameled red ground, fine white
clay, 3 inches in height and diameter. Made at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Date, 1850.

No. 271. Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with peony flowers, painted in purple and
yellow enamels over the glaze, and ornamented with
conventional cloud design, fine white clay, 5 inches in
diameter, and 4^ inches in height. Made at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Mark, Fuku and Kasui. Date,
1850.

flmtani Mare.
No. 272. Sake Decanter, hexagon shape with
rounded narrow neck, Kutani porcelain.
The upper part decorated with coiled dragons, painted
in light red on the darker red ground, with floral scrolls
in gold, the body decorated with diapers in black,
green, and yellow enamels, the base with a scroll design
in black and blue, fine white clay, 5^ inches in height.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark, Shoreido
Kichizo Sei, with a seal of Tozan. Date, 1850.

No. 273. Saucer, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a melon, painted in black and yellow
enamels, and leaves in black, purple, and green enamels
in the center, and with a band of purple with black strips
round the upper edge, hard reddish clay, 4^ inches in
diameter. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga.
Mark, Fuku. Date, 1750.

No. 274. Incense Box, Kutani porcelain.
The cover decorated with a floral scroll, painted in
black, blue, purple, and yellow enamels surrounded by
a blue border, and the body with a rich green enamel
ornamented by black diapers, reddish clay, 2^ inches
in diameter, and 1 y inches in height. Made at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Mark, Fuku. Date, 1800.
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flmtani Mare.
No. 275. Sake Cup, Kutani porcelain.
The outside decorated with four maple-leaves, painted
in purple and yellow enamels, with the space between
decorated with black strips on green ground, and the in
side with a band of green with black strips, white clay,
2y2 inches in diameter, and 1 y2 inches in height. Made
at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark, Fuku. Date,
1800.
No. 276. Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
The outside decorated with peony floral scroll in black,
green, and purple enamels on yellow ground with small
black dots, the top and base with black and green bands
of diapers, the inside with peony flowers painted in
black, green, and purple enamels in the center with black,
green, and purple enamels round the upper edge, fine
white clay, <^y2 inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in
height. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark,
Fuku. Date, 1800.
No. 277. Incense Burner, with silver top,
square shape, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with six medallions with floral designs and
landscapes, painted in colored enamels and surrounded
with diapers of dark red, fine white clay, 3^ inches in
height, and 3^ inches in diameter. Made at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.
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flmtani Mare.
No. 278. Bowl, Kutani stoneware.
The outside decorated with peony flowers and Shishi
dog foo, painted in black, blue, green, red, and yellow
enamels, and the inside with a floral design painted in
gold and colored enamels in the center with a band of
diapers painted in colored enamels, soft white clay, 6y
inches in diameter, and 4 inches in height. Made at
Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Mark, Kutani, painted
in red. Date, 1850.

No. 279. Fire Bowl, Kutani stoneware.
Decorated with green, purple, and yellow flambe glaze,
soft white clay, 4^ inches in diameter, and 3 inches in
height. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date,
1800.

No. 280. Sake Cup, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a landscape in medallion in the center,
painted in gold and red, and with floral scrolls painted
in gold and red on the sides, fine white clay, 2y inches
in diameter, and 1 y inches in height. Made at Kutani,
in the province of Kaga. Mark, Kutani, impressed.
Date, 1850. 140

flmtani Mare.
No. 281. Fire Bowl, Kutani porcelain.
Covered with a dark mustard glaze, and decorated with
peony flowers painted in green and purple enamels, fine
white clay, 3^ inches in height, and 5^ inches in di
ameter. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date,
1750.
No. 282. Sake Bottle, with swelling body
and narrow neck, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with peony flowers above a trellis-work,
painted in black, green, red, and yellow enamels, and
with bands of different colors round the neck, white clay,
$y inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the province
of Kaga. Date, 1750.
No. 283. Covered Jar, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with four panels, with floral designs painted
in colored enamels, and surrounded by floral scroll painted
in colored enamels, white clay, 1 1 y inches in height.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1700.
No. 284. Saucer, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a landscape in the center, painted in
black, blue, green, purple, and yellow enamels, and with
grape-vines for the border, fine white clay, 7 inches long,
and j,y inches wide. Made at Kutani, in the province
of Kaga. Mark, Fuku. Date, 1750.

flmtani Mare.
No. 285. Sake Bottle, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with various medallions of flowers and
crests surrounded by scroll design, painted in colored
enamels, white clay, 1 1 y2 inches in height. Made at
Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.
No. 286. Sake Bottle, with long narrow neck
and swelling body, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with medallions of flowers and crests,
painted in colored enamels, white clay, 10^ inches in
height. Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date,
1750.
No. 287. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Kutani
porcelain.
¦ Decorated with peony flowers, painted in black, green,
and purple enamels on yellow ground with a diaper,
white clay, 8y inches in height. Made at Kutani, in
the province of Kaga. Mark, Fuku. Date, 1800.
No. 288. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Kutani
porcelain.
Decorated with black scrollwork, and covered with a
rich green glaze, white clay, %y inches in height. Made
at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1750.

©ta Mare.
No. 289. Plate, Kutani porcelain.
Decorated with a plum-tree by the fence with two
birds, painted in colored enamels, fine white clay, 8y
inches in diameter. Made at Kutani, in the province of
Kaga. Date, 1700.

©ta Mare, province of ikii.
Ota ware was made at Ota, a village in the
district of Nakusa, in the province of Kii, and
was established at about the same time as
Meppo-Dani factory. The older specimens
resemble Meppo ware, and the later ones are
made after Kairakuyen ware. The wares
with flambe" glaze were also made here. This
factory was closed a few years ago.

flDeppo^Dani Mare, province of Ikii.
The ware known by this name was made
at the factory located in Meppo-Dani, in Wa-
kayama, which is said to have been opened
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IRairafcuven Mare.
toward the end of the last century. The
famous potter of this place was Zuishi, a
pupil of Mokubei, the great Kioto potter.
He was especially celebrated for his celadon
ware, although he produced many kinds of
porcelains and pottery.
His wares are usually marked with the
stamp of Zuishi, and sometimes he incised
his name. This factory was closed about
twenty years ago.

IkairaRuven Mare, province of Ikit
The private factory established by Prince
Tokugawa in his garden at Nishihama of
Wakayama, was opened during the Bunkwa
period (1804-17), and in 1827 Yeiraku Hozen,
a famous Kioto potter, was sent for by him to
work for him at the factory.
He produced here for the prince those beau
tiful wares glazed with the purple, yellow, and

IRairafcuven Mare.
blue glazes, after the celebrated Cochin China
ware, in porcelains as well as faience. The
ware made here is known as the garden ware
of Kishiu, but sometimes it is also called
Kairakuyen ware, from the name of the gar
den in which the factory was situated. It is
generally marked with the impressed mark
of Kairakuyen, and those pieces made by
Yeiraku Hozen are marked with the impressed
mark of Kahin Shiriu and Yeiraku. The seal
Kahin Shiriu, made of solid gold, and that of
Yeiraku, of solid silver, were presented to
him by the prince. The factory was closed
in 1 844 on the death of the prince. After its
closing a factory was opened at Otokoyama
during the Kayei period, 1 848-5 3 . The wares
similar to Kairakuyen and blue and white
porcelains have since then been produced.
The products of this factory are marked
Nanki Otokoyama. Another factory was es
tablished in 1 87 1 at Wakayama, where the
wares after Kairakuyen style were made, but
it was given up after a short time.
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Ikairakuven Mare.
No. 290. Bowl, with spreading mouth, Kaira
kuyen faience.
The body decorated with pine-trees and mountains in
relief, the pines painted in green and purple, and the
mountains in blue on yellow ground, and the base cov
ered with purple glaze with inside gilded, fine soft white
clay, ^y inches in diameter, and 6y inches in height.
Made at Kairakuyen, in the province of Kii. Mark,
Kairakuyen, impressed. Date, 1830.

No. 291. Bowl, Kairakuyen porcelain.
Covered with a rich green glaze, and decorated with
the phcenix and clouds in relief on the outside, and
with incised floral design inside, fine white clay, 6y
inches in height. Made by Yeiraku at Kairakuyen, in
the province of Kii. Mark, Yeiraku, impressed. Date,
1830.

No. 292. Sake Bottle, Kairakuyen porcelain.
Decorated with ribbed circular lines whose edges are
green and hollows golden, white clay, 4^ inches in
height. Made by Yeiraku at Kairakuyen, in the prov
ince of Kii. Mark, Yeiraku, impressed. Date, 1830.
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Ikairakuven Mare.
No. 293. Incense Burner, Kairakuyen faience.
With a top made in form of chrysanthemum, and with
two handles on the sides, covered with rich purple glaze,
the hollow parts of the chrysanthemum gilded, and with
the incised band of archaic letter "ten thousand" in
cised, soft fine clay, 4^ inches in height. Made by
Yeiraku, impressed. Date, 1830.

No. 294. Incense Box, in form of chrysan
themum, Kairakuyen faience.
The petals in white on the gilded ground, porous
soft reddish clay, 3 inches in diameter. Made by
Yeiraku at Kairakuyen, in the province of Kii. Mark,
Yeiraku and Kahin Shiriu, impressed. Date, 1830.

No. 295. Hanging Vase, Kairakuyen faience.
Decorated with archaic designs, with medallions of
Chinese character of long life in relief in turquoise
blue on rich purple ground, fine soft gray clay, by
inches in height. Made at Kairakuyen, in the province
of Kii. Mark, Kairakuyen Sei, impressed. Date, 1830.

IRairafcuven Mare.
No. 296. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Kaira
kuyen porcelain.
Decorated with gourd-leaves and vines in relief, the
leaves covered with light green, and vines with white
glaze on the yellow ground, fine white clay, 7 inches in
height. Made at Kairakuyen, in the province of Kii.
Mark, Kairakuyen Sei, impressed. Date, 1830.
No. 297. Tea Jar, Kairakuyen faience.
With ivory top covered with a mixed glaze of blue,
purple, and gray, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in height.
Made at Kairakuyen, in the province of Kii. Date, 1 830.
No. 298. Sake Bottle, globular form, with
narrow short neck, Kairakuyen faience.
Covered with thick fine crackled green glaze, with a
patch of purple round the neck, fine yellowish-gray
clay, 5 inches in height. Made at Kairakuyen, in the
province of Kii. Date, 1830.
No. 299. Vase, Kairakuyen porcelain.
Covered with beautiful purple and turquoise blue
running glaze, the mouth ornamented with silver
mounting, fine white clay, 9^ inches in height. Made
at Kairakuyen, in the province of Kii. Date, 1830.

IRairakuven Mare.
No. 300. Incense Box, Meppo-Dani porce
lain.
Hexagon shape, the top decorated with the sun
coming out of the sea, the sun in golden-brown
glaze, and the sea in green, and the sides with brocade
designs in dull red and dark brown, reddish-gray clay,
4 inches in diameter, 2^ inches in height. Made by
Zuishi at Meppo-Dani, in the province of Kii. Mark,
Zuishi, incised. Date, 1800.

No. 301. Vase, Otokoyama porcelain.
Decorated with an archaic design in relief in green
on yellow ground, white clay, 9^ inches in height.
Made at Otokoyama, in the province of Kii. Mark,
Nanki Otokoyama, painted in blue. Date, 1850.

No. 302. Vase, Otokoyama porcelain.
Decorated with grass scrolls in blue on dark ground,
white clay, 4^ inches in height. Made at Otokoyama,
in the province of Kii. Mark, Nanki Otokoyama,
painted in blue. Date, 1850.
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H)eoo Banko Mare.
No. 303. Incense Box, in shape of dog foo,
Otokoyama porcelain.
Covered with green glaze, white clay, 3 inches long
and 2 inches wide. Made at Otokoyama, in the
province of Kii. Mark, Nanki Otokoyama, painted in
blue. Date, 1850.
No. 304. Vase, Otokoyama porcelain.
Decorated with brocade design painted in blue under
the glaze, white clay, 6 inches in height. Made at
Otokoyama, in the province of Kii. Mark, Nanki
Otokoyama, painted in blue. Date, 1850.

l£eoo Banko Mare,
province of flDusasbi.
The first Keramic factory in Yedo (Tokio
of our time) is said to have been established
about 1630 at Akakusa, now famous for the
temple of Kwannon, by the order of the
third Shogun lyemitsu, and the potters who
worked here were especially brought on from
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flmaoo Mare,
Takahara factory of Settsu. The wares pro
duced here were of the same style as those
of Takahara. This factory enjoyed only a
very short existence, and its specimens are
very scarce.
The second in its chronological order, but
the first in importance, is the Yedo Banko
ware, which was produced at a factory in
Kommemura, which was erected by Banko,
the famous Ise potter, who came to Yedo
during Horeki period (175 1-63) by the special
order from the Shogun's government ; but it
was closed on his return to Kuwana in 1786.

flmaoo Mare, province of fIDusasbi.
According to some authorities Imado fac
tory was established during the Tensho
period (1573-91), and some tiles and com
mon earthen wares were made.
During the Teikio period (1684-87) Shirai
Hanhichi, a potter of Imado, first produced

Ikenva Mare.
the fire braziers and other earthen wares
used for tea ceremony, and he was followed
afterward by other potters.
Hanhichi the second was the first Imado
potter who applied the glaze to its pottery,
which was made after the Raku ware style.

Ikenva Mare, province of flDueasbi.
Kenya ware was made by Miura Kenya,
a native of Kioto, who settled at Asakusa
of Tokio in the beginning of the Tempo
period, 1830-43. He was a great admirer of
Kenzan and Haritsu (sometimes known as
Ritsuo). His earliest specimens were made
about 1835, and they closely resemble Ken-
zan's works ; but some works are made after
Haritsu's style, which they resemble very
closely. His follower, Kosawa Benshi, has
been engaged in making Raku ware, as well
as terra-cotta figures, after Kenya's style
with great success.
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IRakurakuven Mare.
The wares made by Benshi are often
called Sumidagawa ware, as his kiln was
on the bank of the river Sumidagawa. Of
other Keramic factories in Tokio, Tamagawa,
Mukojima, Shiba, Ino, are more or less known.
Takemoto and Inouye are two most famous
potters of Tokio, who are now engaged in
Keramic works.
Among the potters of Imado, Gorosaburo,
Sakune Benjiro, and Chiojiro are well-known
names. They made some ornamental figures,
which are known as Imado figures, and
have some reputation.

IRakurakuven Mare,
province of flDueasbi.
Rakurakuyen, "pleasure garden," is the
name of a garden of Prince Tokugawa,
Daimio of Owari, situated at a short dis
tance outside of the Itchigaya gate in Tokio.
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Here in his garden he fitted up a private
kiln, where some potters from Seto made
for his pleasure and enjoyment various ob
jects, mostly tea utensils, with the materials
brought on from Sobokai dani, near Seto
village. It is said that the clay found in that valley
is very superior and well adapted for pottery,
and that in the old days it was always used
by Toshiro, who admired it exceedingly.
For that reason, LordTokugawaMitsutomo,
Daimio of Owari, ordered a large quantity of
it to be stored in the basement of his castle
observatory at Nagoya Owari during the
Kwanyei period, so that it might be also used
for making bullets in case of war.
For the pieces made out of this material in
Tokio, the seal marks of Sobokai and Rakura-
kuyen were used. Iwori Masaki was made
the director of the kiln, and he also turned
out some pieces himself, and in his pieces
there are two marks of Masaki and Raku-
rakuyen.
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Ikorakuven Mare,
Masaki learned the Keramic Art from Kuro
Hirasawa, a famous potter, and was fond of
making pieces ornamented with small figures.
His pieces are pretty and clever, but lack the
esthetic excellence. This kiln existed during
the Bunka and Tempo period, 1804-43.

Ikorakuven Mare, province of flDusaebi.
Korakuyen ware was made at a private kiln
built in the private garden of Prince Toku-
gawa of Mito, at Koishikawa, in Tokio, and
it is said that it was opened toward the end
of the last century, but only kept in existence
for a short time.
This kiln turned out tea bowls, incense
boxes, etc., mostly made after the Raku ware
style, exclusively for the Prince, and all were
marked with the name of the garden either
impressed or written.

Sanrakuven Mare.
Sanrakuven Mare,
province of flDusasbi.
Sanrakuyen ware was made at a private
kiln in Haramachi, in Tokio, where it was
tried to produce the same kind of Keramic
work as that of Kairakuyen in Kishiu, and
several potters were brought on from that
province; but it did not prove a success,
owing perhaps to difficulties in obtaining
the suitable materials.
The kiln was closed up after a very short
time. The pieces turned out from it bear
the stamped mark of Sanrakuyen.
I wish to say a few words about Haritsu
and Kenzan before leaving the province of
Musashi; for those two great artists made
some pottery in Tokio.
Haritsu was a great lacquer artist, as well
as a potter, original in his designs, and
always artistic in execution. He is said to
be the first lacquer artist to introduce

Gokio Mare.
Keramic ornamentation in lacquer ware, and
by so doing originated a new style. He
was a native of Tokio, and in his old days
was pensioned by the Prince of Tsugaru.
He was a pupil of Korin in painting, and
of Kenzan in Keramic Art. He was born
in 1663, and died in 1747. His lacquers, as
well as Keramics, are highly valued by our
collectors. Kenzan, a noted Kioto potter, and brother
of Korin, the famous painter, also made some
pottery at Iriya, in Tokio.
The pieces made at this place are of much
softer clay than those he made at Kioto.
Kikko, an Osaka potter, made some Raku
pottery in Tokio while he was visiting there
about thirty years ago.
No. 305. Saucer, Maruyama faience.
Decorated with a flying sparrow and clouds in relief
left unglazed, and covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, soft fine white clay, 5 y inches in diameter. Made
by Seishi at Maruyama, Shiba of Tokio, in the province
ofMusashi. Mark, Seishi, impressed. Date, 1855.

Gokio Mare.
No. 306. Plate, with scalloped edge, Sanra
kuyen porcelain.
Decorated with a Chinese sage sitting at his desk in
the center, and with floral scroll round the rim in
carving, and covered with light greenish-blue glaze,
white clay, 8y inches in diameter. Made at Haramachi
in Tokio, in the province of Musashi. Mark, Sanra
kuyen, impressed. Date, i860.

No. 307. Tea Jar, Korakuyen faience.
Spherical in shape, covered with black Raku glaze,
with reddish spots, coarse gray clay, 31^ inches in
diameter, and 2 inches in height. Made at Koishi-
kawa, Tokio, in the province of Musashi. Mark,
Koraku, impressed. Date, 1840.

No. 308. Bowl, Sumidagawa faience.
Decorated with a mass of cherry flowers delicately
painted in colors, and covered with creamy-white glaze,
soft reddish clay, 5^ inches in diameter. Made at
Sumidagawa, Tokio, in the province of Musashi. Date,
i860. 158

Gokio Mare,
No. 309. Cake Dish, in form of two squares
overlapping, Iriya faience.
Decorated with narcissus and a verse in Chinese
characters painted in brown, and covered with yellow
ish-white glaze, soft white clay, 6y inches by 5 inches.
Made by Kenzan at Iriya, in Tokio, province of Musashi.
Mark, Kenzan sei, painted. Date, 1730.

No. 310. Cake Dish, square, Iriya faience.
Decorated with winter landscape in colors, and
covered with creamy-white glaze, soft yellowish-white
clay, 6y inches in diameter. Made by Kenzan at
Iriya, in Tokio, province of Musashi. Mark, Kenzan
Shokosai sei Shosu, in brown. Date, 1730.

No. 311. Napkin Holder, Iriya faience.
Cylindrical form, decorated with chrysanthemum
flowers painted in colors over the glaze, and covered
with creamy-white glaze, fine gray clay, 2^ inches in
height. Made by Kenzan in Iriya, in Tokio, province
of Musashi. Mark, Kenzan, painted in brown. Date,
1730. 159

Gokio Mare.
No. 312. Tea Kettle Cover-rest.
Six-sided with perforated surfaces, Kaseizan stone
ware, covered with green glaze, hard gray clay, 2^
inches in height. Made at Kaseizan in Tokio, province
of Musashi. Date, 1800.
No. 313. Tea Bowl, Kenya stoneware.
Covered with grayish dark tea-colored glaze, hard
reddish clay, 4^ inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in
height. Made by Kenya at Asakusa, Tokio, province
of Musashi. Mark, Kenya, impressed. Date, i860.
No. 314. Cake Dish, leaf-shape, Kikko
faience.
Covered with crackled bright-green glaze, reddish
clay, by inches in diameter. Made by Kikko in
Tokio, province of Musashi. Mark, Kikko, impressed.
Date, i860.
No. 315. Tea Bowl, Kikko faience.
Decorated with two crests incised and filled with
golden leaf, and covered with thick black Raku glaze,
dark gray clay, 3^ inches in height, and yy inches
in diameter. Made by Kikko in Tokio, province of
Musashi. Mark, Kikko, impressed. Date, i860.

Gokio Mare.
No. 316. Cake Dish, in form of pomegranate.
Decorated in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
by inches long, and 4 inches wide. Made at Rakura
kuyen, Tokio, province of Musashi. Mark, Rakura
kuyen sei, impressed. Date, 1820.
No. 317. Water Jar, Rakurakuyen stone
ware.
Covered with crackled dull-gray glaze, hard gray
clay, by inches in height, and 5^ inches in diameter.
Made at Rakurakuyen, Tokio, province of Musashi.
Mark, Rakurakuyen and Matsu kaze no sato, impressed.
Date, 1820.
No. 317A. Water Jar, Rakurakuyen stone
ware.
Covered with a dark-dull blue glaze, with splashes of
white, fine reddish clay, 6 inches in height, and <>y inches
in diameter. Made at Rakurakuyen, in the province of
Musashi. Mark, Rakurakuyen sei, impressed. Date, 1820.
No. 318. Tea Bowl, Sumidagawa faience.
Covered with red Raku glaze, soft reddish clay, ^y
inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in height. Made at
Sumidagawa of Tokio, in the province of Musashi.
Mark, Rokujuichi Tsukuru (made at 61st year), incised,
and a seal impressed, obscure. Date, 1850.
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1bagi Mare.
No. 319. Incense Burner, cylindrical form,
with silver cover, Ritsuo faience.
Decorated with plum blossoms and peony flowers in
relief, and painted in colored enamels, and with border
decoration of Greek fret in relief, and covered with
green glaze, fine soft white clay, 4 inches in height,
and 2y inches in diameter. Made by Haritsu in Tokio,
province of Musashi. Mark, Kan, impressed. Date,
1700.

1baai Mare, province of Bagato.
The Keramic factory of Hagi of Nagato
is supposed to have been established many
centuries ago, but its reputation commenced
when Rikei, a Korean potter who, on settling
at Hagi, changed his name to Saka Korai-
Sayemon, began to make pottery here, which
is now much esteemed by all the collectors.
Miwa Kiusetsu, a native of Yamato, is said
to have founded a factory at Matsumoto after
the Korean method, during the Kwanbum
period (1661-72), and produced those opaque,
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Ibaoi Mare.
pale greenish-gray pieces, much admired by
tea amateurs. The descendants of both
Korai-Sayemon and Miwa Kiusetsu have
been engaged in Keramic works.
Under the general name of Hagi ware,
both Matsumoto and Fukagawa (which was
established after Matsumoto factory) wares
are included, and they are very much alike,
the only difference being that of clay. The
Matsumoto ware is of harder and Fukagawa
of softer clay.
No. 320. Water Jar, Nagato stoneware.
Decorated with two handles made in ring-form, and
covered with a light grayish-blue crackled glaze, hard
gray clay, 5^ inches in height, and 7^ inches in
diameter. Made at Matsumoto, in the province of
Nagato. Mark incised, obscure. Date, 1800.
No. 32 1 . Tea Cup, Fukagawa stoneware.
The outside covered with dark-brown and gray
glazes interwoven, and the inside with grayish-blue
glaze, fine gray clay, 2^ inches in diameter, and 2^
inches in height. Made at Fukagawa, in the
province of Nagato. Date, 1864.

Sbigaraki Mare.
No. 322. Tea Cup, Hagi stoneware.
Covered with pinkish-white glaze, applied in a
manner to imitate shark's skin, coarse sandy reddish
clay, 2y inches in height, and 2^ inches in diameter.
Made at Matsumoto, in the province of Nagato. Date,
1830.
No. 323. Vase, Hagi stoneware.
Covered with crackled bluish-gray glaze, hard fine
clay, 53^ inches in height. Made at Matsumoto, in the
province of Nagato. Date, 1750.
No. 324. Tea Bowl, Hagi faience.
Covered with bluish-white glaze and finely crackled,
fine light-gray clay, 4^ inches in diameter, 3^ inches
in height. Made at Matsumoto, in the province of
Nagato. Date, 1700.

Sbigaraki Mare, province of ©mi.
Shigaraki factory is one of the oldest
factories, and is said to have been established
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of Omi, during the Koan period, 1278-87.
The earliest specimens are the seed jars
made of coarse hard sandy clay covered
with a dull reddish yellow-brown glaze
with thin transparent green glaze over it,
and they are known as the old Shigaraki.
During the Yeisho period (1504-20), the
famous master of tea ceremony, Takeno
Showo, gave a great encouragement to
Shigaraki potters by making its products
popular among the tea amateurs, as well as
giving them various hints in making them.
The wares of this period are called Showo
Shigaraki, and are much admired by tea ama
teurs for their close resemblance to the
imported Korean and Annam pottery. This
ware was made during the Tensho period,
1 573—9 1 . Senno Rikiu, the most celebrated
master of tea ceremony, and the founder of
Senke School, recognized Shigaraki ware as
one of his favorite kilns. The wares made
after Rikiu's directions are known as Rikiu
Shigaraki, and they are like Seto ware in
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their appearance. The tea jars made about
this period are glazed with the thick Ame
black glaze. One of the best potters of
Shigaraki was Shinjiro, who lived about
Rikiu's time, and he signed his pieces with
the character Shin incised.
Since the Horeki period (1 75 1-63), they have
used Shinsha glaze at Shigaraki for decorating
its pottery. This factory is also noted for its
tea jars, which are believed to preserve tea
better than any other ware.

Ze3e Mare, province of ©mi.
Zeze is the general name under which the
products of Oye, Seta, Kokubu, Bairin,
Suzumegatani, and Zeze kilns are called.
According to Ninagawa, it is said that Oye
kiln was established in the village of Oye
about the Kei-Cho period, 1 596-1614. The
specimens of its early productions are similar
somewhat to Shigaraki ware, but coarser in
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clay and thinner in glazing, and some of them
are marked with the characters Oye, written
in brown with a finger.
Since the Kwanyei period (1624-43), its
ware began to improve, as it was directed
and patronized by the great Yenshiu, and
those beautiful tea jars, bowls, water jars,
etc., somewhat resembling those of Tamba
and Takatori, were made here about this
period. This kiln is one of the seven great
kilns patronized by Yenshiu. It was closed
some time during the Kioho period, 1716-35.
Seta kiln was established shortly after Oye
at Seta, and its wares are almost alike to Oye
ware, having the same materials, but Seta is
not quite as good as Oye in its workmanship,
as it is generally heavier in its making up and
poorer in its glazing. Seizayemon, who
worked here during 1624-43, had the repu
tation of being a good potter. This kiln
was also given up about the same time as
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that of Seta, and existed for about a cen
tury. It produced tea bowls, plates, tea
jars, etc., somewhat after Awata ware, and
most of them are decorated with a chrysan
themum branch painted in black. This kiln
was also closed about the same time as the
other two, and the wares made at these three
kilns are called Zeze by the people of Zeze
and its vicinity. Bairin kiln was opened
near the town of Zeze in the latter part of
the last century, and was kept up only for
a short time.
The ware made here are the copies of
Cochin China ware covered with green,
purple, and yellow glazes, generally shading
from the dark to the light colors.
Some pieces made with molds were also
produced at this kiln.
All the pieces turned out from this kiln are
marked with the stamp of Bairin. Specimens
are exceedingly rare.
Suzumegatani kiln was established in 1866,
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few good specimens bear the signature of
Doyetsu, whose works sometimes have the
mark of Zakuzan or Zakuzan Doyetsu.
Of the other later kilns Zeze, Seta, and
Nagarayama, only the first one still exists.
Nagarayama wares are marked with the
stamp of Nagarayama. Seta wares made by
Torakichi, a Kioto potter, are quite good, and
bear the signature of "Zezetora."
The later Seta ware has the mark of Mon-
pei, whose stamp reads ' ' Monpei potter east
of the bridge of Seta Koshiu."

Ikoto Mare, province of ©mi.
The ware made at a private factory of
Prince Ii in Hikone is known by the name of
Koto ware, as it was made at the factory
situated on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa
(Koto means east of the lake). It was estab
lished in the beginning of this century, after
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very short time. Its products are mostly
blue and white porcelains and the decorated
ware painted in gold and red over the glaze,
after the Kutani ware called "Hachiroye
Kinrande." A few specimens of finely crack
led yellowish glazed pottery similar to Awata
ware were also made.
This ware is held in high estimation from
its artistic quality. Specimens are by no
means common.

No. 325. Tea Jar, pear-shape, Shigaraki
stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant metallic-brown glaze, hard
sandy gray clay, 4 inches in height. Made, at Shigaraki,
in the province of Omi. Date, 1800.

No. 326. Tea Jar, Shigaraki stoneware.
Covered with light-green glaze, hard sandy gray
clay, 2y inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.
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No. 327. Tea Jar, gourd-shape, Shigaraki
stoneware.
Covered with mottled-brown glaze, hard sandy red
clay, 2 inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.

No. 328. Tea Jar, gourd-shape, Shigaraki
stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant brown glaze, hard sandy red
clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1750.

No. 329. Tea Jar, Shigaraki stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant dark-brown glaze, and with
bluish-white glaze round the mouth, hard sandy gray
clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.

No. 330. Sake Bottle, Shigaraki stoneware.
Covered with a gray flecked green glaze, hard sandy
gray clay, 8 inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Date, 1800. 171

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No. 331. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with nar
row neck, Shigaraki stoneware.
Covered with crackled green glaze, hard sandy gray
clay, yy inches in height. Made at Shigaraki, in the
province of Omi. Date, 1750.
No. 332. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with three
indented spaces, Shigaraki stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant dark-brown glaze, and with
crackled bluish-white glaze round the neck, hard sandy
gray clay, ny inches in height. Made at Shigaraki,
in the province of Omi. Date, 1800.
No. 333. Water Jar, Shigaraki stoneware.
Partly covered with greenish-brown glaze, and deco
rated with incised scrolls round the mouth, hard sandy
grayish-red clay, 8 inches in height, and 5^ inches in
diameter. Made at Shigaraki, in the province of Omi.
Date, 1600.
No. 334. Vase, cylindrical form, Koto porce
lain .
Decorated with landscape with Chinese figures
painted in gold and red over the glaze, the mouth and
base decorated with diapers painted in the same
colors, fine white clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at
Koto, in the province of Omi. Date, 1850.
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No. 335. Fire Bowl, cylindrical form, Koto
porcelain.
Decorated with landscape painted in gold and red, the
rim and base with diapers, fine white clay, 3^ inches
in height, and 4 inches in diameter. Made at Koto, in
the province of Omi. Date, 1850.

No. 33s a. Water Jar, Koto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with design
of bamboo, plum, and pine, with figures in medallion
and with characters of wealth, longevity, and happi
ness in medallions painted in blue under the glaze.
Made at Hikone, in the province of Omi. Mark, Koto,
painted. Date, 1820.

No. 336. Tea Jar, Zeze stoneware.
Covered with a dark-brown glaze, hard gray clay,
2y inches in height. Made at Zeze, in the province of
Omi. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1750.

No. 337. Bowl, Zeze faience.
Covered with a light-chocolate glaze, fine gray clay,
1 1 y inches in diameter, and 5 inches in height. Made
at Zeze, in the province of Omi. Date, 1650.
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No. 338. Cake Dish, Bairin faience.
With a small mouth in a side, and with an arched
handle, square shape, covered with crackled green,
purple, white, and yellow glazes, fine yellowish-gray
clay, by inches in diameter. Made at Bairin, in the
province of Omi. Mark, Bairin, impressed. Date,
1800.

No. 339. Sake Cup, Seta faience.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze, sandy red clay,
2y inches in diameter. Made by Mokubei, at Seta, in
the province of Omi. Mark, Seta and Mokubei, im
pressed. Date, 1 8 10.

No. 340. Tea Cup, Hira faience.
Decorated with ferns painted in black, and covered
with thin gray glaze, red clay, 3 inches in diameter,
and 2 y inches in height. Made at Hira, in the province
of Omi. Mark, Hira, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 341. Tea Jar, Shigaraki faience.
Covered with crackled bluish-gray glaze, soft red
dish-gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made by Yuko,
at Shigaraki. Mark, Yuko, impressed. Date, 1800.
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No. 342. Tea Jar, Zeze stoneware.
Partially covered with dark metallic-brown glaze,
fine reddish-brown clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at
Zeze, in the province of Omi. Mark, thread lines.
Date, 1700.

Seto Mare, province of ©wari.
Seto factories are supposed to have been in
existence from the earliest times, and some
pottery was presented to the Emperor as
early as the eighth century from one of these
factories, but Seto pottery before Toshiro's
time was not of much importance, and it is
only since his return from China that it began
to attract the wide attention for its Keramic
products. Toshiro settled in Seto in 1227, and built a
kiln which was called Heishigama (Heishi
kiln). He produced here tea jars, bowls, etc.,
with Chinese materials he brought back with
him, which are called " Karamono," Chinese
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ware, and also the same with Seto clay,
which are known as Ko-Seto, " Old Seto."
Toshiro is an abbreviation of Kato Shiro-
zayemon, and Shunkei is his nom de plume
assumed by him in his older days. The
pieces made in his older days, and known
as Shunkei ware, are considered to be his
masterpieces, and they are very highly
valued. The works of Toshiro the second, made
during the Banyei period, are known as Ma-
Chiuko, the true middle age antiquity. He
is said by many experts to be superior to the
first Toshiro, and there is no doubt that his
works are as good as the first Toshiro's. He
applied the yellow glaze to Seto ware, which
is known as Ki-Seto and is highly prized
by our connoisseurs. He worked between
1250-1300. Toshiro the third was a skilful potter, and
produced those beautiful tea jars of a bril
liant golden-brown glaze, a flambe' glaze, and
subdued yellow glaze. His productions are
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known as Chuko-Butsu, or Kinkwazan, as
he used the clay taken from a mountain of
that name, in the province of Mino. He
worked between 1300-50.
Tozaburo, the son of Toshiro the third,
was also a skilful potter, and worked dur
ing the second half of the fourteenth century.
His wares are known as Hafugama ware, from
the fact that the lower edge of his glaze,
which was thick, assumed a mountain-shape
like the hafu — an opening of that shape found
in Japanese houses. He is said to have been
in the habit of using tea-brown glaze, with
yellow glaze over it. He worked between
1 3 50- 1 400. All the productions of Seto
factories after 1400 are generally spoken of
as Nochigama ware, or the later kiln ware,
of which Shino, Oribe, Tokonabe, Ofuke, and
Nochi Shunkei are the principal varieties.
Shino ware owes its origin to Shino Soshin,
a famous master of tea ceremony, and a re
tainer of Shogun Yoshimasa of Ashikaga
family, who had those thick and crackle
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glazed stonewares known as Shino ware,
made by Seto potters especially for him
during the Bunmei period (1469-86), and
all Seto ware made after this style since that
time are called Shino ware.
Oribe ware is so called as it was first made
by the desire of Furuta Oribe No Sho Shige-
yoshi, a noted master of tea ceremony dur
ing the Tensho period (1 573 —90, at Seto,
and it is somewhat similar to Shino ware,
but its clay is of softer quality, and its glaze
of a quieter tone. Its decorations are more ar
tistic. The most common decoration, though
not the best, is that of the latticed bars and a
plum flower painted in dark brown, which is
the family crest of Furuta. There are some
fine specimens among the undecorated wares.
The ware made after Oribe style is known as
Oribe Yaki.
Gempin ware, so called from the name of
the potter, was made by Gempin, a Chinese
artist, who settled at Nagoya about 1659,
where he painted and made some pottery.
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His wares are mostly rough unglazed stone
ware, decorated with some flowers and verses
engraved and marked with his name in blue,
and some of them are of crackled stoneware,
decorated with some sketchy designs painted
in blue under the glaze. The specimens of
his work are very rare, and are highly prized
by Japanese tea amateurs.
Seto Kuro ware was made by Hirosawa,
a native of Owari, and an official of the pro
vincial government, who was fond of making
pottery in his leisure hours. His specimens
are artistic, and he was especially noted for
copying the older pottery. He is said to
have worked during 1800-50.
The first porcelain was produced in the
province of Owari, at Seto, by Kato Tami-
kichi, in about 1804, who studied porcelain-
making at Arita, in Hizen. His productions
were blue and white wares. Since his time,
Owari factories turned out blue and white,
celadon and plain blue porcelains of remark
ably fine quality.
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Among Seto porcelain, makers, Tamikichi,
Sosendo, Hansuke, and Musukichi are the
most noted potters.
Tokonabe ware is made at a village of that
name, and its factory is supposed to have
been established at about the same time as
that of Seto, but it is since the Tensho period
(1573-91) that it began to produce those
pieces which resemble in some degree the
old Luzon pottery. Chozaburo, who worked
here during the Bunsei period (1818-39), and
Hachibei, who worked about fifty years ago,
are two well-known and clever potters of
that factory.
Inuyama ware, or, as it is sometimes called,
Maruyama ware, is made at a village of Inaki,
near the Castle of Inuyama, and it is said to
have been first made in the beginning of this
century. Its products are principally the
imitations of Chinese Gosu ware, which is
a coarse porcelain covered with dull grayish-
white glaze, and decorated with freely drawn
designs painted in red and green enamels.

Seto Mare.
Ofuke ware is the name by which the
wares made at a private factory established
during the Kwanyei period (1624-43) in the
garden of Nagoya Castle, by Prince Toku-
gawa Mitsutomo, is known, and it is made
after the Seto method, but with finer mate
rials. In the beginning of this century sev
eral varieties of pottery were turned out at
this factory, and its reputation consequently
increased. The factory does not exist now.
Toyosuke Raku ware is a kind of Raku
ware made at Nagoya, by Toyosuke, who
introduced the style of decorating pottery
with lacquer in the beginning of this cen
tury. Sometimes this ware is called " Ho-
raku " ware.

No. 343. Water Jar, cylindrical form, with
two handles, Seto stoneware.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze, with yellow glaze
splashes, fine hard bluish-gray clay, 8 inches in height,
and by inches in diameter. Made at Seto, in the prov
ince of Owari. Date, 1 600.
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No. 344. Tea Jar, semi-globular in form, Seto
faience.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze, with splashes
of yellowish brown, fine gray clay, 2y inches in height.
Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1600.
No. 345 . Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze, splashed with
dark brown, hard red clay, 3 inches in height. Made
at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1700.
No. 346. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with thick metallic-brown glaze, hard red
clay, 2y inches in height. Made at Seto, in the prov
ince of Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1650.
No. 347. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with brilliant brown glaze, fine gray clay,
3 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1 700.
No. 348. Tea Jar, Seto faience.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze, fine gray clay,
3 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1 500.

Seto Mare.
No. 349. Tea Jar, Seto faience.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze, with splashes of
yellowish brown, fine reddish-gray clay, 3^ inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date,
1550.

No. 350. Tea Jar, Seto faience.
Covered with brown glaze, with dark-brown splashes,
fine gray clay, 2 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1800.

No. 351. Tea Jar, cylindrical, with square
mouth, Seto stoneware.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze, reddish-gray clay,
¦$y inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1700.

No. 352. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with celadon glaze, with splashes of bluish-
brown gray glaze, 2y inches in height. Made at Seto,
in the province of Owari. Date, 1800.
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No. 353. Tea Jar, Seto faience.
Covered with brown glaze, with splashes of dark
brown and yellow, reddish-gray clay, 3^ inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date,
1700.

No. 354. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze, hard red clay,
3 y inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1650.

No. 355. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, Seto stone
ware.
Covered with brilliant purplish-brown glaze, with
splashes of chocolate-brown, fine bluish-gray clay,
13}^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province
of Owari. Date, 1750.

No. 356. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with nar
row neck, Seto stoneware.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze, splashed with
dark brown, hard reddish clay, 13^ inches in height.
Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1800.
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No. 357. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A dark-brown glaze, with splashes of grayish blue,
hard red clay, 5^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in
the province of Owari. Date, 1800.
No. 358. Vase, Seto stoneware.
Metallic-brown glaze, with a splash of mustard yellow,
hard red clay, 6 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1750.
No. 359. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Tea-brown glaze, splashed with blue, bluish-gray clay,
2 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1600.
No. 360. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A mottled chocolate-brown glaze, and bluish-gray clay,
1 y2 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1650. •
No. 361. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
.Metallic mustard-brown glaze, with splashes of yellow
and hard gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Seto,
in the province of Owari. Date, 1600.
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No. 362. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Dull dark-brown glaze and bluish-gray clay, 3^
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1650.
No. 363. Vase, Seto stoneware.
Globular body and a long neck, with two handles
made of dragon's head, covered with crackled vitreous
greenish-gray glaze, and decorated with a band of blue
and brown, of an archaic design, incised, hard gray clay,
10 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1800.
No. 364. Vase, Seto stoneware.
Swelling waist, with trumpet-shaped neck and base,
covered with crackled yellow glaze, and decorated with
floral scroll in relief under the glaze, gray clay, 12^
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1700.
No. 365. Vase, Seto stoneware.
Swelling waist, with trumpet-shaped neck and base,
with two handles round the neck, covered with thick,
greenish-blue glaze, gray clay, 10 inches in height.
Made by Shuntei at Seto, in the province of Owari.
Mark, Shuntei, impressed. Date, 1800.
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No. 366. Vase, gourd-shape, Seto faience.
A thick, black glaze, and decorated with the medal
lions of chrysanthemum traced in brown on white
spaces, soft gray clay, by inches in height. Made at
Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1850.

No. 367. Tea Bowl, Seto stoneware.
A mottled yellow-brown glaze, hard reddish-gray
clay, $y inches in diameter, and 2y inches in height.
Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1 500.

No. 368. Tea Bowl, Seto stoneware.
A yellowish celadon glaze, and decorated with in
cised design of triangles round the base on the outside,
hard gray clay, 5 inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date,
1800.
No. 369. Bowl, square form, with a small
square base, Seto stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant crackled greenish-gray clay,
splashed with brown, hard gray clay, 5 inches in di
ameter, and 4y2 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1800.
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No. 370. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A metallic chocolate-brown glaze, with irregular dark-
brown splashes, gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made
at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1750.

No. 371. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A chocolate-brown glaze, with dark-brown splashes,
hard red clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in
the province of Owari. Mark, whirlpool lines. Date,
1600.

No. 372. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A thick, dark olive-brown glaze, hard fine gray clay,
3 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1400.

No. 373. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A dark yellowish-brown glaze, hard reddish-gray clay,
2y2 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1400. 188

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No. 374. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with small
neck, Seto stoneware.
A crackled gray glaze, covered with greenish-blue run
ning glaze ornamented with a silver rim, hard gray
clay, $y inches in height. Made at Seto, in the prov
ince of Owari. Date, 1750.

No. 375. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with long
narrow neck, Seto stoneware.
A brilliant bluish-black glaze splashed with metallic
brown, hard gray clay, 12 inches in height. Made at
Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1750.

No. 376. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, tapering
toward the mouth, Ofuke stoneware.
Fine crackled greenish-blue glaze, hard fine reddish-
brown clay, ioy inches in height. Made at Ofuke, in
the province of Owari. Date, 1650.

No. 377. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A thick brown glaze, with running splash of darker
brown, gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Seto, in
the province of Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1600.

Seto Mare.
No. 378. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A metallic chocolate-brown glaze, with dark brown
round the neck, hard reddish-gray clay, 2 3^ inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Mark,
thread lines. Date, 1600.

No. 379. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A chocolate-brown glaze shaded with amber brown,
hard gray clay, 2 3^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in
the province of Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1700.

No. 380. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A dark blackish-brown glaze, hard gray clay, 2*/2
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, thread lines. Attributed to the first
Toshiro (1225) by Ninagawa.

No. 381. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A dark spotted-brown glaze, hard red clay, 2^ inches
in height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Mark,
thread lines. Date, 1550.

Seto Mare.
No. 382. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A chocolate-brown glaze, with dark-brown splashes,
fine gray clay, 2^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in
the province of Owari. One of the Tobi Shunkei glazes.
Date, 1650.

No. 383. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A dark olive-brown glaze, with red spots, hard
reddish-gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Seto,
in the province of Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date,
1450.

No. 384. Tea Jar, Seto faience.
A fine crackled-yellow glaze, soft gray clay, 4^ inches
in height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Mark,
thread lines. Date, 1750.

No. 385. Water Jar, Ofuke stoneware.
An amber-brown glaze streaked with bluish yellow,
hard gray clay, 5^ inches in height, and by inches
in diameter. Made at Ofuke, in the province of Owari.
Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.
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No. 386. Bowl, Ofuke stoneware.
A yellowish-gray glaze, with bluish-green splashes,
fine gray clay, 8 inches in diameter, and 3^ inches in
height. Made at Ofuke, in the province of Owari.
Date, 1800.

No. 387. Vase, square shape, with spread
ing mouth, Seto stoneware.
A bluish-gray crackled glaze, with blue and mustard-
brown running glaze, hard gray clay, 8y inches in
height. Made by Shunzan at Seto, in the province
of Owari. Mark, Shunzan, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 388. Sake Bottle, Seto stoneware.
A chocolate-brown glaze, with splash of amber brown,
hard red clay, 9^ inches in height. Made by Shuntai
at Seto, in the province of Owari. Mark, Shuntai, im
pressed. Date, 1800.

No. 389. Vase, bucket-shape, Seto stoneware.
A bluish-brown glaze, gray clay, 7 inches in height.
Made by Shunitsu at Seto, in the province of Owari.
Mark, Shunitsu, impressed. Date, 1850.
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No. 390. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A mottled-brown glaze, with splashes of brown, hard
gray clay, 4 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the prov
ince of Owari. Date, 1350.

No. 391. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
A crackled-yellow glaze, hard gray clay, 3 inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Mark,
thread lines. Date, 1800.

No. 392. Tea Bowl, Seto stoneware.
The Raku black glaze, decorated after Oribe style, fine
gray clay, 3^ inches in diameter, and 3*^ inches in
height. Made by Shuntai at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, Shuntai, impressed. Date, 1800.

No. 393. Ink Stand, in shape of Koto, Shino
stoneware.
A gray crackled glaze, and decorated with strings
and string-rests painted in brown under the glaze, hard
reddish-gray clay, 1 y inches in height, 8 inches long,
and 3 inches wide. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1650.

Seto Mare.
No. 394. Tea Bowl, Shino stoneware.
Covered with a pinkish-gray crackled glaze, and dec
orated with a sketchy landscape painted in brown under
the glaze, hard gray clay, 5 y inches in diameter, and 4
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1700.
No. 395. Tea Bowl, Shino Oribe stoneware.
Covered with a pinkish-gray crackled glaze, and dec
orated with rough sketch of birds and reeds on the out
side, and the crests of Oribe inside painted in brown
under the glaze, hard gray clay, 5 y2 inches in diameter,
and 3 inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province
of Owari. Date, 1750,
No. 396. Tea Bowl, with a small mouth on
side (Katakuchi), Shino stoneware.
Covered with pinkish-gray crackled glaze thinly and
unevenly applied, hard gray clay, 51^ inches in diameter,
and 3^ inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province
of Owari. Date, 1650.
No. 397. Tea Bowl, Shino stoneware.
Covered with finely crackled gray glaze, and decorated
with vertical lines of orange and brown, hard gray clay,
5^ inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in height. Made
at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1800.

Seto Mare.
No. 398. Cake Dish, Shino stoneware.
Square form, with scalloped corners, covered with a
bluish-gray crackled glaze, and decorated with birds and
grasses inlaid in white under the glaze, hard reddish-gray
clay, 6 inches square, and 2 inches in height. Made at
Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1850.

No. 399. Water Jar, Oribe stoneware.
Covered with a dark-green glaze with a splash of
bluish-gray, fine gray clay, by inches in height, and 6
inches in diameter. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1 580.

No. 400. Vase, Oribe stoneware.
Covered with green glaze, and decorated with peony
flowers incised under the glaze, fine gray clay, ^y
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1650.

No. 401. Cup Stand, Oribe stoneware.
Covered with bluish-green glaze, fine gray clay, 2^
inches in height. Made at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Date, 1 700.

Seto Mare.
No. 402. Vase, gourd-shape, Tokonabe stone
ware.
Covered with a mottled-green glaze embellished with
gourd vines and leaves in relief, hard red clay, 7 inches
in height. Made at Tokonabe, in the province of Owari.
Date, 1850.
No. 403 . Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Inuyama
stoneware.
Covered with a dull-gray crackled glaze, and deco
rated with maple-tree painted in brown, red, and
green over the glaze, hard red clay, 8y inches in
height. Made at Inuyama, in the province of Owari.
Mark, Inuyama, painted. Date, 1840.
No. 404. Tea Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with a dull-reddish glaze round the mouth,
and decorated with rough chisel marks. Hard, sandy-
gray clay. Said to be made by Gempin at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1660.
No. 405 . Fire Bowl for smoker, Seto porcelain.
Covered with a chocolate glaze, and decorated with
flowers and butterflies in colored enamels over the glaze,
fine white clay, 4 inches in diameter, and 3^ inches in
height. Made by Sosendo at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, Yakinushi Sosendo (baked by Sosendo),
painted. Date, 1820. 196

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No. 406. Incense Box, Seto porcelain.
Decorated with an archaic design painted in blue
under the glaze, fine white clay, 2^ inches in diame
ter, and 1 inch in height. Made by Hansuke at Seto,
in the province of Owari. Date, 1815.
No. 407. Tea Jar, Seto porcelain.
Decorated with floral design painted in blue under
the glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in diameter. Made
by Tamikichi at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date,
1810.
No. 408. Table Screen, Seto porcelain.
Covered with blue glaze, and decorated with peony
flowers on one side and with storks on rock in sea on
the other, in white relief, fine white clay, 43^ inches in
height, and 5*^ inches in width. Made by Sosendo at
Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1820.
No. 409. Water Jar, Seto stoneware.
Covered with crackled, pale celadon glaze, and deco
rated with an archaic design in relief under the glaze,
fine gray clay, by inches in height and diameter.
Made by Hogiokuyen at Seto, in the province of
Owari. Mark, Dai Nippon Hogiokuyen, impressed.
Date, 1850.
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No. 410. Vase, trumpet-shape, with swelling
body, Seto porcelain.
Covered with a rich celadon glaze, and decorated with
a band of floral design round the center in relief, and
the neck fluted vertically and the foot horizontally, fine
white day, 22 y inches in height. Made by Sosendo
at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1820.

No. 411. Covered Bowl, Horaku faience.
The outside covered with the Nashiji lacquer, deco
rated with chrysanthemums painted in gold lacquer, and
the inside covered with gray crackled glaze, soft reddish-
gray clay, 3^ inches in diameter, and 41^ inches in
height. Made by Toyosuke at Nagoya, in the province
of Owari. Date, 1820.

No. 412. Incense Burner, Horaku faience.
Covered with reddish-brown lacquer on the outside,
and with greenish-gray crackled glaze inside, fine soft
reddish-gray clay, 2 inches in diameter, and 1 y inches
in height. Made by Toyosuke at Nagoya, in the prov
ince of Owari. Mark, Toyosuke, impressed. Date,
1820.

Seto Mare.
No. 413. Vase, Horaku faience.
Covered with a brilliant thin green glaze, with amber-
brown splash round the mouth, and decorated with two
ornamented lion's-head handles on the neck, fine gray
clay, 6 inches in height. Made by Toyohachi at Na
goya, in the province of Owari. Date, 1830.

No. 414. Sake Bottle, square shape, with
short narrow neck, Seto stoneware.
Covered with dark-gray crackled glaze, over which a
brilliant pale-blue glaze is applied round the neck and
shoulders, and decorated with wood-grain design painted
in brown under the glaze, and with a fan and bag on
panel, and a fan and sacred scroll on the other in relief
under the glaze, hard gray clay, 10 inches in height.
Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1800.

No. 415. Vase, square shape, tapering to
ward the mouth and foot, Seto stone
ware .
Covered with a thick green glaze, and decorated with
a band of lightning diapers round the middle incised
under the glaze, hard reddish-gray clay, 10^ inches in
height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari. Date,
1800.

Cbosa Mare.
No. 416. Table Screen, Seto porcelain.
Decorated with plum-tree in relief, and the tree and
flowers painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
by inches in height. Made by Sosendo at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1820.

Cboea Mare, province of ©eumi.
Chosa factory was established by the Ko
rean potters, brought back from Korea by
Prince Shimadsu Yoshihiro, the daimio of Sat
suma, Osumi, and Hiuga, and they were or
dered by him to make tea jars, tea bowls,
etc., which were in use by tea clubs. The
wares made at this factory were of very fine
and carefully manipulated clay, and they were
covered either with green, yellow, and black
mixed glaze, or with a flambe' glaze. Another
variety, known as the Ziakatsu glaze, which
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ings, was the snake-skin glaze, which is con
sidered to be the best among the old Chosa
ware. This factory was removed to Tateno,
in the province of Satsuma, from whence it
was again removed to Tanoura.
Finally it was established at Nayeshirogawa,
where Bokukoyo, the most skilful Korean pot
ter, found fine materials for pottery-making.

No. 417. Tea Bowl, Chosa faience.
Covered with the tiger-skin glaze "Torafu," and or
namented with a silver rim, fine gray clay, 5 inches in
diameter, and 3 inches in height. Made at Chosa, in
the province of Osumi. Date, 1600.

No. 418. Tea Bowl, Chosa stoneware.
Covered with the snake-skin glaze "Ziakatsu," the
inside covered with a wrinkled greenish-gray glaze, hard
reddish clay, 5 inches in diameter, and 3 y inches in
height. Made at Chosa, in the province of Osumi.
Date, 1600.

Satauma Mare.

Satsuma Mare, province of Satsuma.
Satsuma ware is perhaps better known both
in America and Europe than any other Japan
ese faience, but of many kinds to be found in
the Satsuma ware only one kind is familiar, —
namely, that of a finely crackled rich creamy
faience, decorated elaborately in gold and rich
colors. Of the other kinds a very little seems
to be known.
The earlier specimens are those of the fif
teenth century, and they are of a rather coarse
clay, and indifferent glaze. They do not pos
sess much artistic merit, though they are much
valued by some of our collectors.
The famous egg-shell ware, which delights
our connoisseurs as well as those of America
and Europe, was produced at the factory of
Nayeshirogawa, where Bokukoyo discovered
the fine white clay admirably adapted for the
purpose. The Nishikide style of decoration was in-
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troduced during the Kwansei period (1789-
1800) under instructions from Prince Shimadsu
Narinobu, the daimio of the three provinces,
and it attained a great reputation at once as
the superior work of all other decorated faience
thus far produced in Japan.
The decorated Satsuma ware is distinguished
especially by its delicate outline, its rich dull
red, green and blue enamels, with thick gold
tracings. The best specimens of the decorated
ware are to be found among those made be
tween 1789 and 1830, and the term old, when
applied to the decorated Satsuma, must be
understood to mean those of about one hun
dred years ago.
Sunkoroku Satsuma is so called from the
fact that it was made after the style of a for
eign ware having that name, and it is differ
ent from the well-known Satsuma. It is
usually made of hard gray clay, and covered
with a dull dark-gray glaze, decorated with
some archaic designs painted in black or
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Satsuma Mare.
Mishima Satsuma is another variety which
is decorated with a very minutely painted
decoration of Japanese calendar design.
Hakeme Satsuma is the variety of Satsuma
having the brush-mark decoration.
Seto Kusuri Satsuma is the ware having
Seto glaze, and this variety is mostly made
with a hard reddish-gray clay.
Amekusuri Satsuma is the name given to
those Satsuma having amber-color glaze, and
this variety is often decorated with some
incised decoration.
Bekkode Satsuma is the tortoiseshell-like
glazed Satsuma, and the most famous among
this variety is that .of Torafu, the tiger-skin
glaze. The inlaid Satsuma is another variety,
and it is generally made with a grayish-
white clay, and decorated with some design
inlaid under the glaze with white or gray
clay. There are, besides the above varieties, the
shark-skin glaze, blue and white Satsuma,
black Satsuma, purple Satsuma, etc.
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No. 419. Vase, pyriform, spreading mouth
with two lion's-head handles, Satsuma
faience.
Covered with grayish-white crackled glaze, and deco
rated with a Mishima design painted in blue under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 1 1 y inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1800.
No. 420. Vase, with tapering neck and two
handles, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, fine
gray clay, 13 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1750.
No. 421. Vase, bulb-shape, with long neck,
Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled grayish-white glaze, and deco
rated with boys at play painted in blue under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 14}^ inches in height. Made at Tateno,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.
No. 422. Tea Bowl, Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled grayish-white glaze, and dec
orated with lotus flowers traced in gold, and the
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nipotent Buddha), fine gray clay, 5^ inches in diame
ter, and 2y2 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.
No. 423. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled dark-gray glaze, and decorated
with a Mishima design inlaid in white under the glaze,
fine reddish-gray clay, 2j^ inches in height, and 3
inches in diameter. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1750.
No. 424. Sake Cup, Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled ivory-white glaze, and deco
rated with floral scroll painted in blue under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 2j^ inches in diameter, and \y inches
in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the province of
Satsuma. Date, 1850.
No. 425 . Vase, square beaker-shape, Satsuma
faience.
Covered with crackled ivory-white glaze, and deco
rated with floral design painted in gold and colors
round the neck, and partly covered with raven-black
glaze, fine gray clay, 71^ inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1850. 206

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No. 426. Saucer, Satsuma faience.
Covered with red, yellow, blue, and green glaze in
sections, made after the Cochin China ware, and or
namented with a silver rim, fine gray clay, 434 inches
in diameter. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the province
of Satsuma. Date, 1750.

No. 427. Vase, bulb-shape, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, fine
gray clay, by inches in height. Made at Nayeshiro
gawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

No. 428. Dish, leaf-shape, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy glaze, and dec
orated with the incised lines of the leaf, ^y inches in
diameter. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the province of
Satsuma. Date, 1850.

No. 429. Dish, square shape, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with floral scrolls and peony flowers painted
in gold and colored enamels over the glaze, fine gray
clay, 6 inches long, and 4 inches wide. Made at Naye
shirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1850.
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No. 430. Table Screen, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with a boy at study on one side, and a man
writing on the other side, painted in gold and colored
enamels, fine gray clay, 6 inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1 800.
No. 431. Sake Bottle, square shape, with a
short small neck, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with landscape painted in gold and colored
enamels, fine gray clay, 7%! inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1 800.
No. 432. Tea Bowl, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with landscape painted in blue under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in diameter, and 3
inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the prov
ince of Satsuma. Date, 1850.
No. 433. Sake Bottle, tapering hexagon
shape, with short neck, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with dragon painted in blue under the glaze,
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shoulder, fine gray clay, 9 inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1800.

No. 434. Tea Bowl, Satsuma faience.
Covered with amber glaze, and decorated with floral
scroll incised, fine gray clay, 33^ inches in diameter, and
2y inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

No. 435. Sake Cup, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with a bird and plum-tree painted in blue
under the glaze, fine gray clay, 2^ inches in diameter,
and 1 y inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in
the province of Satsuma. Mark, Senma Sei (made by
Senma), impressed. Date, 1870.

No. 436. Incense Burner, square form, Sat
suma faience.
Covered with finely crackled yellow glaze, fine gray
clay, 2 inches in height, and 2 inches in diameter.
Made at Tateno, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1 800. 16 209

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No. 437. Sake Cup, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled yellow, purple, and green
glaze known as Bekkode, fine gray clay, 1 y2 inches in
diameter, and 1 y inches in height. Made at Tateno,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.
No. 438. Bowl, with a mouth on the side,
Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled thick greenish-brown glaze,
fine gray clay, by inches in diameter, and 3 inches in
height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the province of
Satsuma. Mark, Gokokusan Kakitsubata, impressed.
Date, 1750.
No. 439. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Satsuma
faience.
Covered with a brilliant chocolate glaze, splashed with
greenish brown, hard reddish-gray clay, 14 inches in
height. Made at Kagoshima, in the province of Sat
suma. Date, 1800.
No. 440. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with metallic-chocolate glaze, hard reddish
clay, by inches in height. Made at Kagoshima, in the
province of Satsuma. Mark, Hoko, impressed. Date,
1800. 210

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No. 44 1 . Water Pot, for table, Satsuma faience.
Covered with metallic-brown glaze splashed with
bluish black, hard reddish clay, 2 inches in height.
Made at Kagoshima, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1800.
No. 442. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with metallic greenish-brown glaze, and dec
orated with a medallion on the front, which is surrounded
with floral border in relief, and the center of the medal
lion covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, hard
red clay, 73^ inches in height. Made at Kagoshima, in
the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.
No. 443. Tea Jar, with lid, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled gray glaze, known as
shark-skin glaze, hard reddish clay, ^y inches in height.
Made at Tsuboya, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1850.
No. 444. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with Seto Kusuri glaze of dark tea-brown
color, fine reddish clay, 3 inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1700.

Satsuma Mare.
No. 445. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
Mishima design painted in brown under the glaze, fine
reddish clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Kagoshima,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1 800.

No. 446. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with Seto Kusuri of bluish tea-brown glaze,
fine red clay, 45^ inches in height. Made at Nayeshiro
gawa, in the province of Satsuma. Mark, thread lines.
Date, 1700.

No. 447. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with thick tea-brown Seto glaze, hard red
clay, 4y inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in
the province of Satsuma. Mark, thread lines. Date,
1650.

No. 448. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with tea-brown Seto glaze, hard reddish clay,
4 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the prov
ince of Satsuma. Mark, thread lines. Date, 1800.
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No. 449. Sake Bottle, with swelling body
and short narrow neck, Satsuma faience.
Covered with tea-brown Seto glaze, fine red clay, by
inches in height. Made at Kagoshima, in the province
of Satsuma. Date, 1 700.

No. 450. Incense Burner, Satsuma faience.
Covered with snake-skin glaze, fine red clay, 3 inches
in height, and 2y inches in diameter. Made at Naye
shirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

No. 45 1 . Vase, Satsuma faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
Sunkoroku design painted in black under the glaze,
fine bluish-gray clay, 14 inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1800.

No. 452. Vase, Satsuma faience.
Covered with dark tea-brown glaze, and decorated
with scroll design inlaid with white clay under the
glaze, hard red clay, 8y inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date,
1800. 15A 213

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No. 453. Covered Bowl, Satsuma faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy glaze, and deco
rated with pine, plum, and bamboo painted in colored
enamels over the glaze, fine gray clay, 5^ inches in
diameter, and -$y inches in height. Said to be a speci
men of Ninsei's work. Made at Kagoshima, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1670.
No. 454. Sake Bottle, Satsuma faience.
Square form with short small neck, covered with
finely crackled glaze, and decorated with grass scroll
design painted in blue under the glaze round the
shoulder, fine gray clay, 9^ inches in height. Made at
Nayeshirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1680.
No. 455. Incense Burner, tripod, Satsuma
faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with lion's-head feet, fine gray clay, 7 inches
in height, and 8y inches in diameter. Made at Naye
shirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1750.
No. 456. Vase, with bulbous base and trum
pet-shaped neck, Satsuma faience.
Covered with uneven dark-brown glaze, hard bluish
clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Tateno, in the province
of Satsuma. Date, 1650. 2H

Satsuma Mare.
No. 457. Comfit Box, bottle-shape, Satsuma
faience.
Covered with finely crackled ivory-white glaze, and
decorated with conventional floral design in colored
enamels, painted over the glaze, fine gray clay, 3 inches
in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the province
of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

No. 458. Tea Jar, Satsuma faience.
Covered with metallic chocolate-brown glaze, and
splashed with bluish-amber glaze, hard red clay, 23^
inches in height. Made at Kagoshima, in the province
of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

No. 459. Vase, Satsuma faience.
Covered with crackled ivory-white glaze, fine gray
clay, 21^ inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1700.

No. 460. Vase, Satsuma faience.
Covered with thick Seto glaze of bluish-brown color,
fine gray clay, 22 inches in height. Made at Nayeshiro
gawa, in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1650.

Sabo Mare.

Sabo Mare, flslano of Sabo.
The origin of Sado factory is not ascer
tained, but since the early part of this cen
tury, a potter named Kintaro made tea
bowls, etc., mostly used by tea clubs, and
his wares are much admired.
No. 461. Tea Bowl, Sado stoneware.
Covered with a thin chocolate glaze, over which black
ish brown is applied round the rim, fine hard gray clay,
4y inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in height. Made
by Kintaro, in the province of Sado. Mark, Sashiu
Kintaro tsukuru (made by Kintaro in Sado). Date,
1850.

SanuW Mare, province of Sanuki.
Sanuki ware is the name by which the pot
tery made at Takamatsu and at Shido, in the
province of Sanuki, is known, and it is sup
posed that the factory was established here

SanuM Mare.
by Ninsei, the famous Kioto potter, during
the seventeenth century.
Dohachi, another celebrated Kioto potter,
visited this factory in 1836, and gave some
instructions to the potters, and made some
pottery himself while he stayed here.

No. 462. Dish, ovoidal and fluted sides,
Sanuki faience.
Covered with a crackled pinkish-white glaze, and dec
orated with chrysanthemum flowers painted in blue
under the glaze, and leaves painted in green enamel
over the glaze, gray clay, 6 inches in diameter. Made
by Dohachi at Takamatsu, in the province of Sanuki.
Mark, Sanyo, impressed. Date, 1836.

No. 463. Plate, scalloped edge, Sanuki
faience.
Covered with amber glaze, and decorated with land
scape in relief, and superb fan-shaped bordering of dia
pers and basket-work designs, soft yellowish clay, 10^
inches in diameter. Made at Shido, in the province of
Sanuki. Date, 1850.

Sanuki Mare.
No. 464. Cake Dish, square shape, Sanuki
faience.
Covered with green glaze, and decorated with an in
cense burner and lion in relief in the center, and a
border design, fine soft yellowish clay, 8y inches in
diameter. Made at Shido, in the province of Sanuki.
Mark, Min, impressed. Date, 1839.

No. 465. Bowl, Sanuki faience.
Covered with a crackled red Raku glaze, and deco
rated with a dragon painted in black and white under
the glaze, soft reddish-gray clay, by inches in diameter,
and 3 inches in height. Made at Yashima, in the prov
ince of Sanuki. Mark, Yashima, impressed. Date,
1850.
No. 466. Tea Bowl, Sanuki faience.
Covered with a crackled Raku glaze, soft reddish-
gray clay, 4y inches in diameter, and 3^ inches in
height. Made at Yashima, in the province of Sanuki.
Mark, Yashima, impressed, and Kuju Hichi Rinso Tsu
kuru (made by Rinso in his ninety-seventh year), in
cised. Date, 1850.

Suwo Mare.

province of Suwo.
No. 467. Bowl, with cover, Suwo faience.
Covered with reddish-yellow and dark-gray glaze,
soft gray clay, 2^ inches in height, and 3^ inches in
diameter. Made by Kikko at Iwakuni, in the province
of Suwo. Mark, Kikko, impressed. Date, 1832.
No. 468. Bowl, with cover, Suwo faience.
Covered with a pinkish-gray glaze, and decorated
with crests painted in brown and white over the glaze,
soft gray clay, 2 inches in height, and 2^ inches in
diameter. Made by Kikko at Iwakuni, in the province
of Suwo. Mark, Kikko, impressed. Date, 1832.

province of Suruga.
No. 469. Bowl, Shidsuhata faience.
Covered with pale-yellow glaze, with streaks of terra
cotta red, soft gray clay, 1 y inches in height, and 3^
inches in diameter. Made at Shidsuoka, in the province
of Suruga. Mark, Shidsu, impressed. Date, 1880.
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Settsu Mare.

Sanba Mare, province of Settsu.
There are several Keramic factories in the
province of Settsu, — namely, Takahara, Na-
niwa, Kosobe, Sanda, and Sakurai.
Takahara factory was established during
the Keicho period (1596-16 14), after the
Korean method, and tea bowls, jars, etc.,
used by tea clubs, were made.
Naniwa or Takatsu factory was also estab
lished after the same method during the Yenpo
period, 1673-80. It is said that this factory
was established by Ninsei, and its products
seem to sustain this statement, as they are
similar to those of Ninsei's works in many
respects. Kosobe factory was first established about
the same time as that of Takahara, but its
ware was not much known until a new kiln,
built after the Kioto method by Igarashi, be
gan to turn out tea bowls, etc., made after
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Settsu Mare.
Igarashi the second was a noted potter,
and was a great copyist of Takatori, Karatsu,
decorated Korean, and other foreign wares.
The present potter is the fourth of Igarashi
family, and is still engaged in his professional
works. Among Kosobe ware, those decorated by
Komatsuya Tasuke, whose nom de plume
wasTainen, an amateur and bric-a-brac dealer,
are quite famous for their artistic quality.
Sakurai factory is located at a village called
Sakurai, and it was opened about a century
ago, when it produced some Raku ware ; but
a little later Mokubei and Shuhei, of Kioto,
were invited here to improve it, and since
then the wares, faience as well as porcelain,
after their style were made here.
Sanda factory was established during 1688—
1703 by order of Prince Kuki, daimio of Sanda,
and it was his special desire to reproduce the
beautiful celadon porcelain made during the
Ming dynasty in China, although some pot
tery resembling Tamba ware was also made.
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The early specimens of Sanda celadon are
not so satisfactory, but the later ones are in
many cases the remarkable copies of old Chi
nese celadon, and its reputation for the celadon
became great among the Japanese amateurs.

No. 470. Water Jar, with handle, Kosobe
faience.
Covered with dark-brown glaze splashed with grayish
white running into brown, fine gray clay, 83^ inches in
height, and 7 inches in diameter. Made at Kosobe, in
the province of Settsu. Mark, Kosobe, impressed. Date,
1850.

No. 471. Fire Bowl, for smoker, Kosobe
faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
fine lines encircling the rim and base, inlaid with white,
and four circular devices in white, with brown marks on
the sides under the glaze, gray clay, 41^ inches in height
and diameter. Made at Kosobe, in the province of Settsu .
Mark, Kosobe, impressed. Date, 1870.
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Settsu Mare.
No. 472. Sake Cup, Kosobe faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and dec
orated with lotus-leaf painted in brown under the glaze,
reddish clay, 2iy inches in diameter. Made at Kosobe,
in the province of Settsu. Mark, Kosobe, impressed.
Date, 1870.
No. 473. Tea Bowl, Kosobe faience.
Covered with dull pinkish-gray glaze, and decorated
with crabs painted in blue under the glaze, gray clay,
z,y inches in diameter. Made at Kosobe, in the prov
ince of Settsu. Mark, Kosobe, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 474. Vase, with spreading neck and base,
Sanda porcelain.
Covered with a rich celadon glaze, fine white clay,
8y inches in height. Made at Sanda, in the province
of Settsu. Date, 1830.
No. 475. Incense Burner, with silver top,
Sanda porcelain.
Covered with bright celadon glaze, and decorated with
floral scroll in relief under the glaze, fine white clay, 41^
inches in height. Made at Sanda, in the province of
Settsu. Date, 1850. 223

flfeasuko Mare.
No. 476. Vase, Kiuzan faience.
Covered with a pinkish-gray glaze, with copper-green
spots, fine soft gray clay, ioy inches in height. Made
by Kiuzan of Osaka, in the province of Settsu. Mark,
Kiuzan Sei, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 477. Tea Jar, Kiuzan faience.
Covered with a metallic-brown glaze, hard red clay,
3 inches in height. Made by Kiuzan of Osaka, in the
province of Settsu. Mark, Kiuzan, impressed. Date,
1850.

fIDasuko Mare, province of Sbimotsuke.
The ware called Masuko is made at a vil
lage of that name, in the province of Shimot-
suke. It is not certain when this factory was
established, as no mention is made in any
Japanese Keramic history. Its products are
mostly the household vessels, such as rice
bowls, sake bottles, bowls, dishes, etc.

ftsusbima Mare.
No. 478. Sake Bottle, Masuko stoneware.
The body covered with amber-brown glaze, and the
neck with a dull-green glaze, and decorated with a
basket-work design in relief under the glaze, hard
dark-gray clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Masuko,
in the province of Shimotsuke. Date, 1850.
GsusMma Mare, llslanb of SsusMma.
Tsushima factory was established during
the Keicho period (1596-1614), after the Ko
rean method, and it produced tea bowls, etc.,
after the Korean ware, which are such re
markably successful copies that many mis
take them for the original Korean pieces.
Among the famous potters of this factory
Mosan was the most skilful artist, and his
specimens are held in high estimation. Gen-
yetsu, Yaheida, Taihon, Tokuhon, and Kodozo
are the most noted potters.
Shiga factory, on the same island, was re
established during the Bunkwa period (1804-
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Gsusfoima Mare.
1817), by Yoshida Mataichi, who produced
pottery as well as porcelain with the materials
found near Shiga. The pottery made here
has a glaze and clay somewhat similar to Ko
rean ware, and is decorated with Mishima or
brush-mark designs. The porcelain is mostly
decorated with blue over the white glaze.
All the pieces made at this factory are
marked with a stamp of Shiga, or with Shiga
painted in blue.

No. 479. Incense Burner, with silver top,
Tsushima faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with bamboo, plum, and pine painted in blue
under the glaze, fine gray clay, 3 inches in height.
Made by Mosan at the island of Tsushima. Date, 1650.

No. 480. Tea Bowl, Tsushima faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with bamboo, plum, and pine painted in blue
under the glaze, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in diameter,
and 3 inches in height. Made by Mosan at the island
of Tsushima. Date, 1650. 226

Sbiboro Mare.
No. 481. Tea Jar, Tsushima faience.
Covered with a reddish-gray glaze, and decorated with
cord design round the neck, and with a conventional
floral design on the body in black, fine reddish-gray
clay, 2y2 inches in height. Made at the island of
Tsushima. Date, 1700.
No. 482. Tea Bowl, Tsushima faience.
Covered with a thick pinkish-blue glaze, fine reddish-
gray clay, 51^ inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in
height. Made at the island of Tsushima. Date, 1700.

Sbiboro Mare, province of ftotomi.
According to the local traditions, the factory
at Shidoro is supposed to have been estab
lished by Giyogi, the inventor of the potter's
wheel. Whether it is an authentic fact or a
mere tradition, we have to leave it to a future
decision, but there is no doubt that Shidoro
factory has been in existence for many cen
turies. Its products before the sixteenth cen-
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Sbiboro Mare.
tury were merely common unglazed jars, etc.,
like old Imbe and Shigaraki wares, but since
the sixteenth century it began to turn out
some tea bowls, jars, long-necked bottles,
etc., made with reddish clay, and covered
with a glaze closely resembling those of Seto
Hafu glaze.
During the seventeenth century Kobori
Yenshiu, the great master of tea ceremony,
gave a great impulse to its manufacture by
making it popular among tea clubs, and since
that time it has greatly improved. The fac
tory was moved in about 1 720 to the village
of Yokooka, and its products began to be
marked with a stamp of Shidoro from about
that time.
The early glazed specimens are those of
thinly applied pear-color glaze. The next in
age are those of bright black and amber glaze,
applied twice or three times, and a little later
those of thin pear-color glaze, with patches of
yellow and of dark green, were produced.
Since the beginning of this century green
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and claret-color glazes were used, and also
Torafu, tiger-skin, glaze has been produced
at this factory. Among Shidoro pieces, some
of ornamental figures are highly artistic both
in conception and execution.

No. 483. Tea Bowl, Shidoro faience.
Covered with a pear-color glaze, fine white clay, 41^
inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in height. Made at
Shidoro, in the province of Totomi. Mark, Shidoro,
impressed. Date, 1750.

No. 484. Tea Bowl, Shidoro faience.
Covered with brown and pear-color glazes, hard
reddish clay, 3 inches in diameter, and 2^ inches in
height. Made at Shidoro, in the province of Totomi.
Mark, Shidoro, impressed. Date, 1750.

No. 485. Tea Jar, Shidoro faience.
Covered with a crackled claret-color glaze, fine gray
clay, ^y inches in height. Made at Shidoro, in the
province of Totomi. Date, 1800.
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©bo Mare.
No. 486. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape, Shidoro
faience.
Unglazed, and decorated with medallions painted in
brown, fine gray clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at
Shidoro, in the province of Totomi. Date, 1 800.

©bo Mare, province of Gosa.
The origin of Odo factory is attributed to
Butsuami, a Korean potter, who followed
General Chosokabe Motochika, ruler of the
province of Tosa at that time, to his provin
cial capital Kochi, in 1598, and established
a kiln at Odo, in Kochi, where he made pot
tery with the Korean materials. For that
reason the earliest specimens of Odo ware
are hardly distinguishable from the Korean
wares. Butsuami moved his kiln, after a few years,
from Odo to Nochayama, a place some two
miles west of Kochi, where he found good
clay.

©bo Mare.
It is said by some that the famous Kioto
potter, Ninsei, studied the Keramic art from
Butsuami, and there is no reason to doubt
this statement, for Ninsei's works are similar
to those of Butsuami.
No. 487. Tea Bowl, Odo faience.
Covered with a bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
bamboo, plum, and pine painted in blue under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 43^ inches in diameter, and 3
inches in height. Made at Odo, in the province of Tosa.
Date, 1800.
No. 488. Incense Burner, Odo faience.
Covered with a crackled bluish-gray glaze, and deco
rated with a finely modeled lion for the top, and with
the pierced peony flowers on the body, fine yellowish
clay, gy inches in height. Made at Odo, in the province
of Tosa. Date, 1750.
No. 489. Water Jar, Odo faience.
Covered with a bluish-gray glaze, and decorated with
young ferns painted in brown under the glaze, fine
bluish-gray clay, ^y inches in diameter, and by inches
in height. Made at Odo, in the province of Tosa. Date,
1650.

Gamba Mare.
ftamba Mare, province of ftamba.
Tamba factory was established some cen
turies ago, and is one of the oldest factories
in Japan. The earliest wares were unglazed
stonewares made by hand, and were of
bluish-gray color.
Kichizo, a noted potter of Onohara, made
those thinly modeled tea jars, etc., during
the latter part of the sixteenth century and
the beginning of the seventeenth century,
which are greatly admired, and are now
prized as old Tamba.
The factory at Onohara was moved to
Tachikui during the Kwambun period (1661-
1672), and during the Bunkwa period (1804-
18 1 7) Kutsuki, Daimio of Sasayama, ordered
some potters at this factory to produce some
artistic pieces for the purpose of presenting
them to the Shogun, and also to his fellow
Daimio and friends. The pieces made for him
were much finer, and they are known under

ftamba Mare.
the name of Sasayama ware. Naosaku, who
worked here during the first quarter of this
century, is the most skilful among Tamba
potters, and his wares, which are all marked
with his stamp "Naosaku," are remarkably
beautiful in their workmanship as well as in
glaze and clay.
The gourd-shape sake decanter, which
floats when filled up with sake three quar
ters of its full capacity, was first made by
Naosaku, and it is popularly known as the
floating decanter.
No. 490. Sake Bottle, with long neck and
globular body, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a dark amber-brown glaze, fine dark-
gray clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Tachikui, in the
province of Tamba. Date, 1700.
No. 491. Sake Bottle, square shape, with a
small neck, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a crackled pinkish-gray glaze, and dec
orated with scrolls and flowers in relief under the glaze,
fine reddish-gray clay, $y inches in height. Made at
Tachikui, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1800.

tTamba Mare.
No. 492. Sake Bottle, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a metallic bluish-brown glaze, fine
reddish-gray clay, 7^ inches in height. Made at Ta
chikui, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1 700.
No. 493. Sake Bottle, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a blue glaze, fine reddish-gray clay, 7^
inches in height. Made at Tachikui, in the province of
Tamba. Date, 1700.
No. 494. Oil Bottle, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a mottled-brown glaze, fine gray clay,
3 inches in height. Made at Tachikui, in the province
of Tamba. Date, 1750.
No. 495. Tea Jar, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with Tobi Shunkei glaze, hard reddish-gray
clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Onohara, in the prov
ince of Tamba. Date, 1650.
No. 496. Sake Bottle, gourd-shape.
Covered with a rich metallic-brown glaze, fine bluish-
gray clay, by inches in height. Made at Tenmokuzan,
in the province of Tamba. Date, 1750.
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No. 497. Sake Decanter, the famous floating
decanter, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a brilliant dark amber-brown glaze, fine
bluish-gray clay, 7^ inches in height. Made by Na
osaku at Tachikui, in the province of Tamba. Mark,
Naosaku, impressed. Date, 1800.

No. 498. Sake Bottle, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a creamy opaque- white glaze, fine bluish-
gray clay, ^y inches in height. Made at Tachikui, in
the province of Tamba. Date, 1850.

No. 499. Sake Decanter, Tamba stoneware.
Unglazed, and decorated with a standing stork painted
in brown and white, fine gray clay, 7^ inches in height.
Made at Tachikui, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1 850.

No. 500. Vase, Tamba stoneware.
The upper part covered with a raven-black glaze, and
the lower part with brown glaze, pale-gray clay, 73^
inches in height. Made at Onohara, in the province of
Tamba. Date, 1650. 235

Gamba Mare.
No. 501. Vase, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a raven-black glaze, and decorated with
the medallions of phoenixes painted in brown and white
in reserve, fine pale-gray clay, ij,y inches in height.
Made at Onohara, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1650.
No. 502. Water Jar, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with Seto glaze of reddish brown, with dark-
brown streaks, reddish clay, 8 inches in height. Made
at Tachikui, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1800.
No. 503. Tea Jar, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a mottled-brown glaze, red clay, 3
inches in height. Made at Onohara, in the province of
Tamba. Date, 1650.
No. 504. Tea Jar, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with brown glaze, fine reddish clay, 23^
inches in height. Made at Tachikui, in the province of
Tamba. Date, 1700.
No. 505. Tea Jar, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a dark amber-brown glaze, and deco
rated with four ears on the neck, pale-gray clay, 14^
inches in height, and 12 y inches in diameter. Made
at Tachikui, in the province of Tamba. Date, 1700.

IRioto Mare.
No. 506. Vase, Tamba stoneware.
Covered with a dark-brown glaze, spotted with mus
tard-yellow spots, fine bluish-gray clay, by inches in
height. Made at Tachikui, in the province of Tamba.
Date, 1750.

Ikioto Mare, province of l^amasbiro.
Kioto for many centuries was the art center
of Japan, and has been famous for its art pro
ducts. We find more famous potters in Kioto
than any other place, and she counts among
her potters Shoi, Manyemon, Genjuro, So-
haku, Moyemon, Shinbei, Kichibei, Domi,
Koson, Chausuya, Chasomeya, Ninsei,
Ameya, Koyetsu, Kenzan, Yeisen, Mokubei,
Shuhei, Rokubei, Yeiraku, Dohachi, Kitei,
Yozo, Hozan, Kinkozan, Taizan, Tanzan,
Torasuke, and several others, all of whom
are distinguished among our Keramic artists.
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IRioto Mare.
Ameya, the first of the famous Raku fam
ily of potters, came to Kioto during the Yeisho
period (1504-20) from Korea, and commenced
to produce the famous Raku ware, which is
made by hand, without the potter's wheel,
and covered with very thick opaque glaze.
. Ameya married a Japanese on settling in
Kioto, and she also made some tea bowls,
etc., which are known as Ama ware or Nun's
ware, from her having become a nun after her
husband's death. Senno Rikiu, the famous
master of tea ceremony, gave his family name
of Tanaka to the son of Ameya, whose com
mon name was Chojiro, who followed his
father's profession. Chojiro was a greater
potter than his father, and he was honored
by the distinguished patronage of the great
Taiko, who gave him a solid gold seal bearing
a character of Raku, which means pleasure or
enjoyment, to mark his pieces with it, and the
title of Tenkaichi, "the first under the hea
ven." It is from this seal that the family
adopted Raku as their family name.
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Ikioto Mare.
Doniu, familiarly known as Nonko, his son,
and the third of the Raku family, is the great
est potter of that family of twelve generations :
ist. Ameya Sokei.
2d. Chojiro Choyou.
3d. Doniu Nonko.
4th. Ichiniu Sahei.
5th. Soniu.
6th. Saniu.
7th. Choniu.
8th. Tokuniu.
9th. Riyoniu.
10th. Tanniu.
nth. Kichizayemon Keiniu.
1 2th. Kichizayemon, the present maker.
Shoi ware was made by the famous amateur
potter of Kioto, a native of Sakai, Idsumi, who
settled at Muromachi in Kioto, where he prac
tised his profession of oculist, and made some
tea jars, etc., for pleasure, being devoted to
the tea ceremony. He was a contemporary
of the great Rikiu. His wares are very artis
tic, and rich especially in glaze.
Koyetsu, of Honnami family, an expert of
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Ikioto Mare.
sword-blades as well as a great art connois
seur, was a great admirer of the Raku ware,
and he was also a good potter himself. His
pieces, made after the Raku style, are ex
tremely admired by tea amateurs.
Ninsei, whose full name was Nonomura
Seiyemon, was a native of Tamba, and was
educated by his uncle at Odo, in Tosa, where
he studied the Keramic art under Butsuami,
the famous Korean potter who founded Odo
factory. He came to Kioto in the beginning
of the seventeenth century, and pursued his
studies here under Genjuro. He built a kiln
at Sannenzaka, in Kiyomidsu, where he pro
duced his early pieces with the clay taken
from Mizoro. From this circumstance those
are sometimes called Mizoro ware.
The pieces made by him for the palace of
Omuro with a clay from Omuro hill, which
is also called Ouchiyama, are known as Omuro
ware, and they have the stamp of Ninsei en
graved within a border which stands for the
character Uchi, and which is vulgarly called
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Ikioto Mare.
Maku Jurushi, as it resembles the opening of
a Japanese tent, or "Maku."
He is said to have worked at the facto
ries of Iwakura, Seikanji, Otowa, Narutaki,
Awataguchi, Komatsudani, Takagamine, etc.,
. where he imparted the secrets of Keramic art
to his fellow-potters. He worked during the
seventeenth century.
Ninsei may be said to be the exponent of
the most esthetic age of Japan in her Keramic
art, and his works are far superior to any dec
orated faience produced in Japan before or since
his time. No Keramic artist had so many imi
tators as Ninsei, for his ware has always been
greatly valued and sought after by our collec
tors ; but the genuine Ninsei ware can be dis
tinguished from the copies by experts by the
signature Ninsei stamped on it, and by the
peculiar form in the crackle, as well as an in
imitable technical skill displayed in it.
The Mizoro kiln was established at Mizoro
by a potter called Gensuke, a pupil of Ninsei.
The most of the old Mizoro pieces are artistic
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1Ren3an Mare.
in form, and also in decoration, closely re
sembling those of Ninsei's works.
They are usually decorated with young
pines, large bamboo-leaves, etc., painted in
blue and brown. The kiln was given up in
a few years.
Those pieces of later productions signed
with Mizoro mark were made by Hozan of
Awata, who used also the mark of Hozan to
gether with Mizoro mark.

1Ren3an Mare.
All the Keramic works made by Ogata Ken
zan, a great potter as well as painter, of Kioto,
are known as Kenzan ware.
He was a younger brother of that famous
Korin who founded an original school of
painting out of the Kano school, and he is
ranked only second to Ninsei as a Keramic
artist. He was born in 1663 in Kioto, and
died in 1743 in Tokio.
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1ken3an Mare.
His pieces are not, perhaps, as excellent
as Ninsei's, technically, but their decorative
qualities often equal, if not surpass, his works.
Kenzan 's pieces, decorated with free and
sketchy designs painted in black, are ex
tremely artistic in feeling as well as effect.
All the genuine pieces are signed by him
under one of the following names : Shisui,
Kenzan, Shisui Shinsei, Shokosai Kenzan, or
Kenzan, mostly painted in black.
Yebiya Seibei, who had a kiln in Kiyomidsu,
and made some artistic tea bowls, etc., during
the Kioho period (171 7-35), was the most skil
ful potter of Kioto at that time, and had many
pupils, among whom Yeisen and Rokubei be
came the most noted potters. Among Kiyo
midsu pieces bearing the stamp of Kiyomidsu,
and showingthe technical excellence, are many
of Yebiya's works.
Mokubei, who was educated for a priest,
and was connected with the temple of Nan-
zenji, in Kioto, at one time, was a great pot
ter, and quite a literary character as well. He

Moto Mare.
distinguished himself by producing marvelous
imitations of old Cochin China wares, old Chi
nese enameled porcelains, white Corean fai
ence, etc., and in many instances his copies
are superior to the original, giving an evidence
of his great skill. He was a man of high cul
ture and of intensely artistic mind, and all his
productions are artistic. He worked during
the latter part of the last and the early part
of the present century in Kioto. Most of his
pieces are marked with his name, either im
pressed or written.
Yeiraku Riozen, the tenth of Nishimura
family of potters, is another noted Kioto pot
ter, and he was the first of his family to pro
duce porcelains beside the family specialty
of the unglazed earthen urns used by tea
clubs, and his son Hozen became one of the
most famous potters of Japan.
Hozen was invited by Prince Tokugawa,
Daimio of Kii, to establish a private kiln
in the garden of his summer palace at Nishi-
hama of Wakayama, where he produced

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those famous Kairakuyen wares. He was
presented by the prince with two seals of Yei
raku and Kahin Shiriu, and from that time he
adopted Yeiraku as his family name, in place
of Nishimura.
Awata factory was founded toward the
close of the Keicho period (1598-1614) at
Awata, in the eastern district of Kioto, by
Kuyemon, whose products were the finely
crackled creamy-glaze wares, decorated with
designs painted in blue and brown colors.
Kinkozan, Tanzan, Hozan, Taizan, and Iwaku-
razan were the most celebrated potters of
this district.
The factories at Kiyomidsu and Gojozaka
were started at about the same time as
that of Awata, and the similar kind of pot
tery was made here until the Tenmei period
(1781-88), when the famous potter Yeisen
began to produce porcelain. He was fol
lowed by Dohachi, Kitei, and others, in mak
ing porcelain wares.
Mokubei, Rokubei, Kitei, Dohachi, Hichi-
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bei, Seifu, Zoroku Kanzan, Kiju, Torasuke,
Shuhei, and Yeiraku were the noted potters
who produced porcelain in this district, and
the successors of these potters still pursue the
same profession.
Fushimi ware is made at Fushimi, a few
miles south of Kioto, where a factory was
founded many centuries ago ; but its chief
reputation comes from the famous Koye-
mon's works.
Ikaruga Koyemon, who was popularly
known as Ningioya Keyemon, or Koyemon
the doll-maker, produced here during the
sixteenth century the most artistic plastic
figures. Since this time many potters fol
lowed him in producing ornamental figures,
and Fushimi Ningio, or Fushimi doll, became
almost a household word.
At a place called Fukakusa, in Fushimi,
there is a factory where some artistic faience
and porcelain were made. A potter named
Giozan, who worked here in the beginning of
this century, was a noted potter of great skill.
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Dohachi of Kioto erected a kiln at Fushimi
in his older days, and the pieces he made
here were marked with a stamp of Momo-
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Asahi kiln was established at the foot of
Asahi hill, in Ugi of Yamashiro, by the order
of Kobori Yenshiu, the great art connoisseur,
during the Shoho period 1644-47.
Asahi ware is somewhat similar in appear
ance to Karatzu and Corean wares, known as
Gohon. The earliest pieces are not signed.
Gonjiuro Masatada, a brother of Kobori Yen
shiu, the founder, gave the seal of Asahi,
written by himself and engraved for him, to
the potter named Tasuke, for marking his
productions, from which time all the pieces
were marked with that seal.
In the third year of Meiji (1870), Gonjiuro
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wrote the characters Asahi for the potter, and
this seal has been since that time in use.
Asahi kiln is one of the seven famous kilns
admired by that great connoisseur, Yenshiu.
No. 507. Incense Burner, Awata faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with brocade design painted in colored enam
els over the glaze, fine gray clay, 10^ inches in height.
Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1750.
No. 508. Sake Bottle, square form, with
short neck, Awata faience.
Decorated with floral scroll painted in white, green,
and blue enamels over the unglazed surface, fine gray
clay, 9 inches in height. Made at Awata of Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1750.
No. 509. Vase, tapering square form, Kioto
faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze,
and decorated with pierced design of intersecting circles,
and painted in colored enamels, fine white clay, 8y

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inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Ninsei, impressed. (A copy of
Ninsei's work.) Date, 1750.
No. 510. Sake Bottle, cylindrical form, with
short neck, Kioto faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with chrysanthemums painted in colored
enamels, fine gray clay, <j,y inches in height. Made at
Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Otowa,
impressed. Date, 1700.
No. 511. Sake Bottle, bulb-shape, with short
neck, Kioto faience.
Partially covered with creamy, crackled glaze, and the
upper part decorated with floral scroll painted in yellow,
white, and blue enamels, fine gray clay, by inches in
height. Made at Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Kinsei, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 512. Fire Bowl, for smoker, Awata fai
ence.
Decorated with flower scroll painted in white, green,
and blue enamels over the unglazed surface, fine gray
clay, 4y inches in height. Made by Taizan at Awata,
in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Taizan, im
pressed. Date, 1750.

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No. 513. Cake Box, globular shape, Awata
faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with pierced circular designs, fine gray clay,
4y inches in diameter. Made at Awata in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 514. Covered Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with crackled pinkish-gray glaze, and deco
rated with pine-tree and plum blossoms painted in blue
and black under the glaze, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in
diameter. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1750.
No. 515. Incense Burner, hexagonal shape,
with cover made in form of chrysanthe
mum flower, Awata faience.
Covered with finely crackled grayish-white glaze, and
decorated with brocade design painted in colored enam
els and gold and silver over the glaze, fine gray clay,
$y inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, prov
ince of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 516. Tea Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with crackled creamy glaze, and decorated
with the Tokugawa crests painted in black under and
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in green and blue enamels over the glaze, fine gray clay,
2y2 inches in height, and 41^ inches in diameter.
Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1800.

No. 517. Tea Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, fine
white clay, 2y inches in height, and 3^ inches in
diameter. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1800.

No. 518. Sake Cup Stand, Awata faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with pine-branch and chrysanthemum painted
in brown and blue under the glaze, fine gray clay, 1 y
inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

No. 519. Incense Burner, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with brocade design painted in red and green
enamels, and silver and gold over the glaze, fine gray
clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Seikanji in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Seikanji, impressed.
Date, 1750. 251

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No. 520. Incense Burner, Awata faience.
Partially covered with fine crackled creamy-white
glaze, and decorated with floral scroll in relief in six
panels, which are separated by bands, decorated with
scroll painted in blue and gold, .fine gray clay, 2 inches
in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1800.
No. 521. Incense Box, with a cover made in
form of chrysanthemum, Mizoro faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with brown and blue lines round the flower, fine
gray clay, 3 inches in diameter. Made at Mizoro in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Gobosatsu, im
pressed. Date, 1750.
No. 522. Fire Brazier, wooden-drum shape,
Omuro faience.
Coarse red clay, 9 inches in height. Made by Yei
raku after Ninsei's work at Omuro, in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Mark Omuro and Ouchiyama, impressed.
Date, 1850.
No. 523. Konro, cylindrical shape, Kiyomidsu
faience.
Covered with dull bluish-gray glaze, and decorated
with Mishima design inlaid with white under the glaze,
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coarse red clay, 8y inches in height. Made by Yozo at
Kiyomidsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Yoso, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 524. Sake Bottle, Kiyomidsu faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with maple leaves painted in colored enamels and
gold in reserve surrounded by green enamel, fine gray
clay, 8 inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 525. Covered Bowl, Kiyomidsu faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with vertical lines of orange and black, fine gray
clay, 3 inches in height, and 4^ inches in diameter.
Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Date, 1850.
No. 526. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled bluish-gray glaze, and deco
rated with pine-needles painted in brown under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 2y inches in height. Made at
Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 527. Tea Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
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glaze, fine gray clay, 3 % inches in height, and 4%; inches
in diameter. Made by Kinkozan at Awata, in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kinkozan, impressed.
Date, 1850.

No. 528. Sake Decanter, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with dark tea-brown running glaze, fine gray clay,
6 inches in height. Made by Kosai in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Kosai, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 529. Sake Pot, Awata faience.
Covered with brilliant tea-green glaze, and decorated
with Kirins and clouds in relief under the glaze, fine
reddish-gray clay, 5^ inches in height. Made by Kin
kozan at Awata, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Kinkozan, impressed. Date, 1800.

No. 530. Tea Pot, Dohachi stoneware.
Covered with pale tea-green glaze, hard sandy gray
clay, yy, inches in height. Made by Dohachi of Kioto
at Arita, in Hizen, during his visit. Marks, Hizen, Kanyo,
and Dohachi, impressed. Date, 1870.
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No. 531. Tea Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with black glaze excepting the lower part,
which is covered with finely crackled creamy-white
glaze, fine gray clay, 1 y inches in height, and 41^
inches in diameter. Made by Kinkozan at Awata, in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 532. Cake Stand, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
Mishima design inlaid with white under the glaze, hard
red clay, 2y inches in height, and 6 inches in diameter.
Made by Dohachi at Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Dohachi, impressed. Date, 1820.
No. 533. Incense Box, in form of chrysan
themum, Yeiraku faience.
Covered with blue and yellow glaze, soft yellowish
clay, \y inches in height, and 2^ inches in diameter.
Made by Yeiraku at Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Marks, Kahin, Shiriu, and Yeiraku, impressed. Date,
1830.
No. 534. Cake Dish, with arched handle.
Covered with crackled dull pinkish-gray glaze, sandy
gray clay, 5 inches in height, and 4 inches in diameter.
Made by Rokubei at Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Rokubei, incised. Date, 1820.

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No. 535. Tea Pot, square shape, Kioto fai
ence.
Decorated with conventional design of clouds and
waves painted in blue, green, and white enamels over
the unglazed surface, fine gray clay, by inches in height.
Made by Taizan at Awata, in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Taizan, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 536. Sake Pot, Awata faience.
Decorated with four panels having figure and floral
design in brown engobe, and with the bands of blue
enamels, fine gray clay, 6 inches in height. Made at
Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 537. Sake Pot, Awata faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with floral scroll painted in blue enamel over the
glaze, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in height. Made after
the Delft faience at Awata, in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1800.
No. 538. Tea Pot, square shape, Awata fai
ence.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with bamboo plants painted in blue and brown
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under the glaze, fine gray clay, 3^ inches in height.
Made by Kinkozan at Awata, in Kioto, province of
Yamashiro. Mark, Kinkozan, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 539. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
moon, cherry blossoms and snow painted in colored
enamels, and with a dissertation on tea ceremony in
blue enamel written by Koho Fuhaku in the early sum
mer, day of the eighth year of Meiwa (1771), fine gray
clay, ^y inches in height, and 5^ inches in diameter.
Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Date, 1 77 1.
No. 540. Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
landscape painted in blue under the glaze, reddish clay,
2 y inches in height, and 6 inches in diameter. Made
at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 541. Sake Bottle, Kioto faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with landscape painted in blue under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 7 inches in height. Made by Tai
zan at Atawa, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Taizan, impressed. Date, 1750.
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No. 542. Sake Bottle, square form, with short
neck, Kioto faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with landscape painted in blue under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 8y inches in height. Made at
Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1750.

No. 543. Sake Bottle, square form, with short
neck, Kiyomidsu faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with running green glaze round the neck and
shoulder, fine gray clay, 7 inches in height. Made at
Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1800.

No. 544. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with gray crackled glaze, and decorated with
a band of diapers round the upper part, painted over the
glaze in gold, green, and red, fine gray clay, 3 inches
in height, and 5 inches in diameter. Made at Kiyo
midsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kiyo
midsu, impressed. A specimen figured in Ninagawa's
Keramic history. Date, 1675.

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No. 545. Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
flowers painted in colors, fine gray clay, 3 inches in
height, and by inches in diameter. Made by Yozo at
Kiyomidsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Yozo, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 546. Dish, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
cherry flowers in relief under the glaze, fine gray clay,
3 y inches in diameter. Made by First Rokubei at Kiyo
midsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Rokubei,
incised. Date, 1790.
No. 547. Dish, Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, and decorated with
chrysanthemum flower and leaf painted in blue and
brown under the glaze, fine gray clay. Made by Dohachi
at Kiyomidsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Dohachi, impressed. Date, 1830.
No. 548. Sake Cup, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
grasses painted in blue under the glaze, fine gray clay,
2y inches in diameter. Made by Kitei at Kiyomidsu,
in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kitei, im
pressed. Date, 1850.

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No. 549. Incense Box, in form of cucumber,
Kioto faience.
Covered with pinkish-white glaze, and decorated with
leaves and vines painted in brown under the glaze, fine
gray clay, 4 inches long. Made by Rokubei at Kiyo
midsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sei,
impressed. Date, 1820.
No. 550. Sake Cup, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-white glaze, and decorated with
floral scroll painted in blackish blue under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 2 inches in diameter. Made by Yozo at
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Yozo, painted in
blue. Date, 1850.
No. 551. Sake Bottle, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-white glaze, and deco
rated with landscape painted in blue under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made by Giozan at
Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Giozan,
impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 552. Incense Box, in form of a bird,
Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-brown glaze, fine gray clay, 2
inches in diameter. Made by First Rokubei at Kiyo
midsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sei,
impressed. Date, 1790. 260

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No. 553. Incense Box, in form of chrysan
themum, Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, soft yellowish clay, 2
inches in diameter. Made by Woho at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Woho, impressed.
Date, 1850.
No. 554. Tea Cup, Kioto faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with cherry
blossoms painted in colored enamels over the glaze, fine
reddish clay, 2^ inches in height, and 2^ inches in di
ameter. Made by Yozo at Kiyomidsu, in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Yozo, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 555. Small Perfume Bottle, gourd-shape,
Kioto faience.
Covered with dark-gray glaze, fine gray clay, 1 y2
inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, prov
ince of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 556. Tea Bowl, Awata faience.
Covered with crackled dull-brown glaze, and decorated
with pine-trees painted in white, blue, and gold, hard red
clay, ^y, inches in height, and 5 inches in diameter.
Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Ninsei, impressed. (Copied.) Date, 1800.
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No. 557. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
flying birds and moon painted in brown under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 3^ inches in height, and 4^ inches in
diameter. Made at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Ninsei, impressed. Date, 1650.
No. 558. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
pine-trees painted in enamels and gold, fine gray clay,
3^ inches in height, and 3^ inches in diameter. Made
at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Ninsei,
impressed. (Copied.) Date, 1800.
No. 559. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with pinkish-gray glaze, and decorated with
standing storks, fine reddish clay, 4 inches in height
and diameter. Made by First Rokubei at Kiyomidsu, in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sei, impressed.
Date, 1780.
No. 560. Tea Bowl, Dohachi faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with two
Kiri crests incised under the glaze, fine reddish clay,
3 inches in height, and 5 inches in diameter. Made by
second Dohachi at Momoyama, in Fushimi, province of
Yamashiro. Mark,' Momoyama, impressed. Date, 1850.

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No. 561. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with mottled-brown glaze, hard red clay,
2 y inches in height. Made by Sohaku at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1550.
No. 562. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with amber-brown glaze, hard red clay, 2^
inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1550.
No. 563. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with brown glaze, hard reddish clay, 2^
inches in height. Made by Sohaku at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1550.
No. 564. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with thick amber-brown Raku glaze, fine gray
clay, ^y inches in height. Made by Shoi at Kioto,
in the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1 550.
No. 565. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with chocolate-brown glaze with black
streaks, fine gray clay, 3^ inches in height. Made at
Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1700.

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No. 566. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with finely crackled gray glaze, and with
black over it, fine gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made
by Ninsei at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Ninsei, impressed. Date, 1670.

No. 567. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with chocolate glaze, fine gray clay, 3 inches
in height. Made by Rokubei at Kiyomidsu, in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sei. Date, 1800.

No. 568. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Unglazed, and decorated with chrysanthemums in
relief, hard red clay, 1 y2 inches in height. Made at
Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1750.

No. 569. Incense Box, Kioto faience.
Decorated with storks and floral scrolls in low relief,
and colored with blue and green enamels, fine gray
clay, 2y2 inches in diameter. Made at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 570. Incense Box, Dohachi faience.
Covered with red Raku glaze, and gilded, and deco
rated with chrysanthemum in relief, soft pinkish clay,
4 inches in diameter. Made by Dohachi at Fushimi, in
the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 571. Incense Box, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
pine-needles painted in brown under the glaze, fine gray
clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kiyomidsu, impressed.
Date, 1700.
No. 572. Incense Burner, Kioto faience.
Covered with green glaze, and decorated with land
scape painted in black under the glaze, fine gray clay,
2y, inches in height. Made by Rokubei at Kiyomidsu,
in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sei, impressed.
Date, 1880.
No. 573. Dish, oblong, with corners indented.
Covered with dull-white glaze, and decorated with
scrolls and medallions painted in blue and red under the
glaze, soft gray clay, 4^ inches by 8y inches. Made
at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, a Heron,
painted in blue. (Made after the Delft ware.) Date,
1800.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 574. Tea Pot, Kioto faience.
The outside unglazed, and inside glazed with dull-gray
glaze, fine reddish clay. Made at Kioto, in the province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Toseizan, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 575. Tea Bowl, Asahi faience.
Covered with thin pinkish-yellow glaze, fine gray clay,
3 inches in height, and 4^ inches in diameter. Made
at Uji, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Asahi, im
pressed. Date, 1870.

No. 576. Incense Box, in shape of Otafuku,
Kiyomidsu porcelain.
Decorated in colored enamels and gold, fine white
.clay, 2y2 inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.

No. 577. Tea Jar, in shape of bucket, Fu
shimi porcelain.
Covered with celadon glaze, white clay, 3^ inches
in height. Made by Giozan at Fushimi, in the province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Fukakusa Giozan, impressed.
Date, 1800.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 578. Incense Burner, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled celadon glaze, and decorated
with an imperial crest in gilt, white clay, 2^ inches in
height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Gohonzan Onaratame, impressed. Date,
1850.
No. 579. Covered Cake Bowl, Yeiraku por
celain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with dragon
flowers and children at play painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 5 inches in diameter. Made by
Yeiraku Hozen at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Kahin Shiriu, impressed, and Yeiraku Hozen Konan
nite Tsukuru, painted in blue. Date, 1840.
No. 580. Sake Cup, Yeiraku porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with medal
lions painted in blue under the glaze, and the rest of the
surface with birds and scrolls painted in red and gold,
fine white clay, 1 y inches in height. Made by Yeiraku
Wazen at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Dai Nippon Yeiraku Tsukuru, painted. Date, i860.
No. 581. Sake Cup, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with crackled white glaze, and decorated with
a verse in blue under the glaze, fine white clay, 2^
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inches in diameter. Made by Seifu at Kiyomidsu, in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Seifu, painted.
Date, 1870.
No. 582. Comfit Bottle, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with land
scape painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
2y2 inches in height. Made by Sahei at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Sahei Tsukuru,
painted. Date, 1850.
No. 583. Tea Jar, hexagonal, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with land
scape and diapers painted in blue under the glaze, fine
white clay, 3 y inches in height. Made by Torasuke
at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Torasuke
Kore wo Tsukuru, painted. Date, 1850.

No. 584. Incense Box, square shape, Doha
chi porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with egg
plants painted in blue under the glaze, fine white clay,
2 inches in height. Made by Dohachi at Arita, in
Hizen, during his visit. Mark, Hizen Kanyo Dohachi
Sei, painted. Date, 1870.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 585. Tea Pot, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with figure
subject painted in colored enamels and gilt over the
glaze, fine white clay, 4^ inches in height. Made by
Shuhei at Kiyomidsu, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Date, 1830.
No. 586. Napkin Holder, Kioto faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with plum
blossoms painted in brown under the glaze and in
white over the glaze, hard gray clay, 2 inches in height.
Made by Kenzan at Narutaki, in Kioto, province of
Yamashiro. Mark, Kenzan, painted. Date, 1700.
No. 587. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with flowers
painted in brown and in blue under the glaze, hard gray
clay, 4y inches in diameter. Made by Kenzan at
Narutaki, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1700.
No. 588. Incense Box, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy glaze, and decorated
with scrolls and diapers painted in black under the glaze,
fine gray clay, 4 inches in diameter. Made by Kenzan
at Narutaki, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Kenzan, painted. Date, 1700.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 589. Water Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
chrysanthemum painted in blue and brown under the
glaze, hard reddish clay, by inches in height. Made
by Kenzan at Narutaki, in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Kenzan, painted. Date, 1700.
No. 590. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with brilliant dark-brown glaze, and orna
mented with silver rim, fine gray clay, 3 inches in
height, and 4^ inches in diameter. Made at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 591. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with brown
streaks, fine gray clay, yy inches in height, and 5^
inches in diameter. Made at Omuro in Kioto, province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Omuro, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 592. Incense Burner, Kioto faience.
Covered with creamy crackled glaze, and decorated
with landscape painted in blue under the glaze, fine
gray clay, 3 y inches in height. Made by Kinkozan at
Awata, in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kin
kozan, painted. Date, 1800. 270

Ikioto Mare.
No. 593. Incense Burner, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-white glaze, and decorated with
landscape painted in blue after the old Delft ware, fine
gray clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

No. 594. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy glaze, and decorated
with archaic bird design painted in black under the
glaze, fine gray clay, 2^ inches in height, and j,y
inches in diameter. Made at Kioto, in the province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

No. 595. Tea Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy glaze, and decorated
with flower design in blue under the glaze, fine gray
clay, 3 inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the prov
ince of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.

No. 596. Napkin Holder, Kioto Raku ware.
Covered with green glaze, and decorated with in
cised golden chain, fine gray clay, 2^ inches in height.
Made at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Raku, impressed. Date, 1850. 271

Ikioto Mare.
No. 597. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with thin dull-green glaze, and decorated
with an imperial Kiri Mon incised and letters painted in
brown, hard red clay, 2^ inches in height, and 4
inches in diameter. Made by Seizan at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Mark, Seizan, impressed. Date,
1850.
No. 598. Tea Pot, Kioto faience.
The outside unglazed, and inside glazed with creamy
crackled glaze, and decorated with incised Japanese verse,
fine gray clay, 2^ inches in height. Made by Rengetsu,
the famous female potter, at Kioto, in the province of
Yamashiro. Mark, Rengetsu, incised. Date, 1850.
No. 599. Tea Bowl, Kioto Raku ware.
Covered with black Raku glaze, and decorated with
Chinese characters in reserve, coarse gray clay, 3^
inches in height, and 4 inches in diameter. Made at
Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Raku, im
pressed. Date, 1700.
No. 600. Tea Jar, with arched handle, Kioto
Raku ware.
Covered with black Raku glaze, coarse red clay, 3
inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1750. 272

Ikioto Mare.
No. 60 1. Tea Jar, Kioto Raku ware.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, coarse reddish clay,
^y inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Raku, impressed. Date, 1750.

No. 602. Vase, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled creamy-gray glaze, and deco
rated with streaks of red glaze, fine gray clay, 8 inches
in height. Made at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro.
Date, 1850.
No. 603. Flower Pot, Yeiraku faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
crests in relief under the glaze, fine gray clay, 4 inches
in height, and 7 inches in diameter. Made by Yeiraku
at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Yeiraku,
incised, and the inscription to the effect that it was made
for Mr. Furugawa of Tsushima with the clay brought
over from Korea. Date, i860.
No. 604. Sake Bottle, Kioto faience.
Unglazed, and decorated with thick green glaze round
the mouth running down, fine reddish clay, 9 inches in
height. Made at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Yamako, impressed. Date, 1850.
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Ikioto Mare.
No. 605. Vase, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with archaic
design painted in green, purple, and red enamels over
the glaze, hard white clay, 10^ inches in height. Made
by Yeisen at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Date,
1750.
No. 606. Vase, Kioto porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with archaic
design painted in colored enamels over the glaze, white
clay, 15 inches in height. Made by Mokubei at Kioto,
in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, painted.
Date, 1800.
No. 607. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with black glaze outside and with creamy-
white glaze inside, and decorated with chrysanthemums
painted in white and gold in sections of gold and silver
diamond, fine gray clay, 3^ inches in height, and 4^
inches in diameter. Made by Mokubei after Ninsei's
work, at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Mokubei, painted. Date, 1800.
No. 608. Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
figure subject painted in blue under the glaze, fine gray
274

Ikioto Mare.
clay, 4y inches in height, and 6 inches in diameter.
Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in the province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Mokubei, painted. Date, 1800.

No. 609. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
floral scrolls painted in colored enamels over the glaze,
fine gray clay, 3 inches in height, and 4^ inches in
diameter. Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in the province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, painted. Date, 1800.

No. 610. Tea Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-white glaze, and decorated with
landscape painted in dark blue under the glaze, fine gray
clay, 2y inches in height, and yy inches in diameter.
Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in the province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Sehei. Date, 1800.

No. 611. Tea Cup, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull grayish-white glaze, and decorated
with dragon and diapers in relief under the glaze, fine
grayish clay, 2 inches in height, and 2^ inches in
diameter. Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in the province
of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, impressed. Date, 1800.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 612. Tea Pot, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
Mishima design incised under the glaze, fine gray clay,
yy inches in height. Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, impressed.
Date, 1800.
No. 613. Tea Pot, Kioto faience.
Covered with yellow glaze, and decorated with archaic
design in relief, fine gray clay, yy inches in height.
Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in the province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Mokubei, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 614. Bowl, Kioto faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
incised floral design, hard red clay, 3 inches in height,
and 5 inches in diameter. Made by Mokubei at Kioto,
in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, im
pressed. Date, 1800.
No. 615. Sake Cup Stand, Kioto faience.
Covered with white and brown glazes, and decorated
with flowers painted in blue under the glaze, fine gray
clay, 1 y inches in height, and 2 inches in diameter.
Made byShuhei at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Shuhei, impressed. Date, 1820.

Hkabaoa Mare.
No. 6 1 6. Cake Dish, boat-shape, Kioto
faience.
Covered with pale-blue glaze, and decorated with
archaic design painted in brown under the glaze, coarse
reddish clay, yy inches by 1 1 y inches. Made by Ro
kubei at Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark,
Sei, impressed. Date, 1810.
No. 617. Water Jar, Kioto faience.
Covered with yellow-brown glaze with metallic dark-
brown spots, gray clay, 5 inches in height, and 9 inches
in diameter. Made at Kioto, in the province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1800.

Hkabaoa Mare, province of IPamato.
Akahada factory is said to have been estab
lished during the Shoho period (1644-47), by
Ninsei, of Kioto, at Koriyama, and its early
products were similar to the Ninsei ware, with
an exception of a difference in clay. The fac
tory was closed in a few years, and it was
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Hkababa Mare.
reestablished by Yanagizawa Giozan, chief of
the Castle of Koriyama during the Kioho
period, 1716-35. Mokuhaku is a famous pot
ter who worked at this factory in the early part
of this century.
Kasezan ware was made at Kasezan in Nara,
and it is a porcelain made after the old blue
and white of China and Shonsui.
It is said by some authorities that Kasezan
was one of the places where the great Shon
sui erected a kiln after his return from China.

No. 618. Water Jar, Akahada faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with reserved medallions and diapers painted
in colored enamels over the glaze, fine gray clay, 6
inches in height, and yy2 inches in diameter. Made at
Akahada, in the province of Yamato. Mark, Akahada
Yama Mokuhaku, impressed. Date, 1840.

No. 619. Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with finely crackled creamy-white glaze, and
decorated with archaic design painted in colored enamels
278

Hkabaoa Mare.
over the glaze, fine gray clay, 4^ inches in height, and
by inches in diameter. Made by Mokuhaku at Aka
hada, in the province of Yamato. Mark, Akahada Yama
Mokuhaku, impressed. Date, 1820.

No. 620. Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with dark chocolate-brown glaze, fine gray
clay, 4 inches in height, and yy. inches in diameter.
Made at Akahada, in the province of Yamato. Mark,
Akahada, impressed. Date, 1820.

No. 621. Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with dark-brown on one side, and with gray
ish-white glaze on the other, reddish clay, 2^ inches in
height, and yy inches in diameter. Made at Akahada,
in the province of Yamato. Mark, Akahada, impressed.
Date, 1850.

No. 622. Tea Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with dark dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
Mishima design incised under the glaze, and filled with
white, hard red clay, 3 inches in height, and 4^ inches
in diameter. Made at Akahada, in the province of Ya
mato. Mark, Akahada, impressed. Date, 1840.
279

Hkabaoa Mare.
No. 623. Tea Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with brown, celadon, and gray glazes in
sections, fine gray clay, yy inches in height, and yy
inches in diameter. Made at Akahada, in the province
of Yamato. Mark, Akahada, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 624. Incense Box, Akahada faience.
Covered with crackled gray glaze, and decorated with
Shippo design painted in blue under the glaze, fine gray
clay, 2y inches in height. Made at Akahada, in the
province of Yamato. Date, 1 800.
No. 625. Tea Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with gray glaze, and decorated with storks
in cloud incised and filled with white under the glaze,
fine reddish clay, yy inches in height, and 4 inches in
diameter. Made at Akahada, in the province of Ya
mato. Date, 1800.
No. 626. Tea Bowl, Akahada faience.
Covered with pale-yellow glaze, and decorated with
a lobster painted in black under the glaze, fine gray clay,
2 inches in height, and 4^ inches in diameter. Made
at Akahada by Mokuhaku, in the province of Yamato.
Mark, Akahada Yama Mokuhaku. Date, 1830.

Hkabaoa Mare.
No. 627. Vase, Akahada faience.
Covered with black glaze, and decorated with vines
painted in colored enamels over the glaze, fine gray
clay, 8y inches in height. Made at Akahada, in the
province of Yamato. Mark, Akahada, impressed. Date,
1800.
No. 628. Incense Box, made in form of Ota-
fuku, Akahada porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with colored
enamels over the glaze, fine white clay, 1 y inches in
height. Made by Mokuhaku at Akahada, in the prov
ince of Yamato. Mark, Akahada Yama Mokuhaku,
impressed. Date, 1840.

No. 629. Tea Jar, Akahada faience.
Covered with Namako glaze, fine gray clay, yy
inches in height. Made by Kochiuten, an amateur pot
ter, at Akahada, in the province of Yamato. Mark,
Kochiuten, impressed. Date, 1800.
No. 630. Tea Bowl, Shonsui porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with Chi
nese boys and floral scroll painted in blue under the
glaze, fine white clay, 3 inches in height, and 4 inches

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in diameter. Made by Shonsui, the first porcelain
maker, at Kasezan in Nara, province of Yamato. Mark,
Sho, painted. Date, 1 520. The place where this was
made is uncertain, but it is one of the great Shonsui's
specimens beyond a question.
No. 631. Vase, Shonsui porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with bro
cade design painted in blue under the glaze, fine white
clay, 9 inches in height. Made, perhaps, at Kameyama
in Nagasaki, province of Hizen. Date, 1850. A copy
of Shonsui's work.
No. 632. Incense Box, Shonsui porcelain.
Covered with white glaze, and decorated with bro
cade design painted in blue under the glaze, fine white
clay, 2y2 inches in height. Made at Kioto, after Shon
sui's work. Date, 1800.

province of $ecbi3en 0£cbi3en).
There existed in this province two Keramic
factories, one at Fukui, the provincial capital,
and another at Mikuni, but no written record

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of these factories can be found in any Keramic
history, except in Ninagawa's works, who
says that Setosuke, a native of Seto, province
of Owari, was invited to Fukui by Yamada, a
wealthy amateur of that city during Manji
period (1658-60), and made some pieces
there, and the tea bowls made by him were
excellent in shape and much admired by tea
clubs. He was appointed one of the tea bowl
makers to the Court of Shogun afterward, and
his descendants were honored with the same
appointment, and settled in Yedo (Tokio).
No. 633. Tea Bowl, Setosuke faience.
Covered with dull-gray glaze, and decorated with
brush-mark inlaid with white under the glaze, hard red
dish clay, 2y inches in height, and 5 inches in diameter.
Made by Setosuke at Fukui, in the province of Echizen.
Mark, Setosuke, impressed. Date, 1660.
No. 634. Covered Bowl, Echizen faience.
Covered with pinkish-gray glaze, and decorated with
landscape inlaid with white, green, and blue under the

Bi3en Mare.
glaze, fine gray clay, 3 y inches in height, and 4^ inches
in diameter. Made at Mikuni, in the province of Echi
zen. Date, 1800. (It is not certain whether this was
made at Mikuni or Fukui, but it is undoubtedly made in
the province of Echizen.)

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This collection contains examples of various
forms into which the imaginative potters of
Japan have fashioned clay.

province of Bi3en.
No. 635. Okimono (decorative piece), figure
of a pheasant standing on rock, Imbe
stoneware.
Greenish-gray day slightly glazed, modeled beautifully,
8 inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Mark, Cho, impressed. Date, 1700.

Bi3en Mare.
No. 636. Okimono, a heron standing on
lotus-leaf, Imbe stoneware.
Greenish-gray clay, slightly glazed, fine modeling, 7^
inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Date, 1700.
No. 637. Incense Burner, made in shape of
rooster on log, Imbe stoneware.
Greenish-gray clay, slightly glazed, ioy inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date,
1700.

No. 638. Incense Burner, in form of boat
with a fisherman sitting in the bow, Imbe
stoneware.
Greenish-gray clay, slightly glazed, yy inches in
height, and 12^ inches in length. Made at Imbe, in
the province of Bizen. Date, 1700.
No. 639. Incense Burner, in form of an ox
on straw bag, Imbe stoneware.
Fine red clay, and beautifully modeled, 5 y inches in
height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date,
1750.

Bi3en Mare.
No. 640. Netsuke, in form of Daruma, Imbe
stoneware.
Fine hard red clay, decorated with gold, \y2 inches
in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen.
Date, 1750.
No. 641. Okimono, figure of Hitomaro the
poet, Imbe stoneware.
Fine red clay, slightly glazed, 12^ inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Mark, Cho,
impressed. Date, 1750.

No. 642. Okimono, bird on log, Imbe stone
ware.
Fine reddish-gray day, slightly glazed, fine modeling,
5 inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Mark, Cho, impressed. Date, 1750.

No. 643. Okimono, a dog foo on rock, Imbe
stoneware.
Hard red day, slightly glazed, 8 inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Mark, Kii,
impressed. Date, 1800. 286

Bi3en Mare.
No. 644. Okimono, gourd with a crab, Imbe
stoneware.

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Hard red clay, covered with pear-skin glaze, 5 }
inches in height, and yy inches in diameter. Made at
Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1800.

No. 645. Okimono, two quails on radish,
Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, covered with pear-skin glaze, yy
inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Mark, Teiko, impressed. Date, 1800.

No. 646. Okimono, monkey making cake,
Imbe stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with greenish-brown glaze,
yy inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Date, 1750.

No. 647. Okimono, cat with rat sitting on
fire brazier, Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, covered with pear-skin glaze, by,
inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen. Date, 1750. 287

Bi3en Mare.
No. 648. Okimono, Yebisu with carp, Imbe
stoneware.
Hard red day, yy inches in height. Made at Imbe,
in the province of Bizen. Date, 1800.

No. 649. Okimono, Kanshin and impudent
peasant, Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, covered with pear-skin glaze, 9^
inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the province of
Bizen, by Kimura Kiyochika. Mark, Dai Nippon Imbe
To Kimura Kiyochika, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 650. Hanging Vase, dragon with sword,
Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, slightly glazed, 8y inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1800.

No. 651. Okimono, dog foo, Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, slightly glazed, i y inches in height.
Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1750.
288

CbikU3en Mare.
No. 652. Water Jar, for writing-table, made
in form of boat, Imbe stoneware.
Hard red clay, thinly glazed, 1 y2 inches in height, and
3 y inches long. Made at Imbe, in the province of Bizen.
Mark, Terami, impressed. Date, 1880.
No. 653. Okimono, figure of Hitomaro the
poet, Imbe stoneware.
Hard fine greenish-gray clay, thinly glazed, fine
modeling, 4^ inches in height. Made at Imbe, in the
province of Bizen. Date, 1750.
No. 654. Okimono, pigeon on stump, Imbe
stoneware.
Hard fine gray clay, covered with white glaze, a rare
specimen of white Bizen, 9 inches in height. Made at
Imbe, in the province of Bizen. Date, 1750.

province of Cbiku3en.
No. 655. Okimono, a Chinese boy with fan,
sitting, Takatori ware.
Good modeling, fine white clay, covered with brown,
gray, and blue glazes, 9^ inches in height. Made at
Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1800.

CbiRU3en Mare.
No. 656. Okimono, boat with a coil of rope,
Takatori stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with yellowish-brown glaze
on the outside, and with dull-gray glaze inside, 4^
inches by 1 1 inches. Made at Takatori, in the province
of Chikuzen. Date, 1800.
No. 657. Okimono, Tekkai blowing out his
spirit, Takatori stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with greenish-brown glaze,
8y inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the prov
ince of Chikuzen. Mark, Taka and Hokiu, impressed.
Date, 1800.
No. 658. Okimono, Jurojin, Takatori stone
ware.
Hard gray clay, covered with olive-green glaze, ioy
inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the province of
Chikuzen. Date, 1800.
No. 659. Okimono, owl on a thatched roof,
Takatori stoneware.
Covered with yellowish-brown glaze, yy, inches in
height. Made at Takatori, in the province of Chikuzen.
Mark, Taka and Shigechika, impressed. Date, 1850.
290

1bi3en Mare.
No. 660. Sake Bottle, in form of egg-plant,
Takatori stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with purple and gray glaze,
by inches in height. Made at Takatori, in the province
of Chikuzen. Date, 1850.
No. 66 1 . Okimono, lotus-leaf and bird, Taka
tori stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with green glaze, yy inches
in height. Made at Takatori, in the province of Chiku
zen. Mark, Taka, impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 662. Incense Burner, a cock and drum,
Takatori stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with green glaze, the cock's
comb in red, 1 1 y inches in height. Made at Takatori,
in the province of Chikuzen. Date, 1850.
province of 1bi3en.
No. 663. Okimono, figure of Genius with
gourd, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with brown, blue, and white
glazes, 4y inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
291

1bi3en Mare,
No. 664. Okimono, figure of Fukusuke, Hi
rado porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with blue under the glaze, 1 y inches in height.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Mark,
Shibata Tomo Uchi, incised. Date, 1850.

No. 665. Incense Box, in form of dog, Hirado
porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, 1 y inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.

No. 666. Okimono, two dogs, Hirado por
celain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, with collars
in brown and blue, 1 y inches in height. Made at Mika
wachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1850.

No. 667. Netsuke, monkey after peach, Hi
rado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, 1 y inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1850.

1bi3en Mare.
No. 668. Netsuke, Daikoku, Hirado porce
lain.
Fine white clay, covered with brown glaze, 1 y2 inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1850.
No. 669. Netsuke, Sennin, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with light-brown glaze, 2
inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province
of Hizen. Date, 1850.
No. 670. Netsuke, Sennin, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with brown, blue, and white
glazes, 2y inches in height. Made at Mikawachi, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 671. Netsuke, Sennin, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, decorated with gilt, blue, and black
over the glaze, 2^ inches in height. Made at Mikawa
chi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 672. Okimono, Hotei, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with blue under the glaze, 1 y inches in height.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date,
1800.

1bi3en Mare.
No. 673. Incense Box, in form of bird, Hi
rado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with colored enamels and gilt over the glaze, 1 y
inches in diameter. Made at Mikawachi, in the prov
ince of Hizen. Date, 1850.

No. 674. Okimono, a branch of chrysanthe
mum on stand, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, 1 y inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 675. Vase, in shape of a clump of bam
boos and figures, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white, brown, and
blue glazes, 10 inches in height. Made at Mikawachi,
in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 676. Okimono, dog, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white day, 5 inches in
height. Made by Komaru, a female potter, at Makawa-
chi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.
294

1bi3en Mare.
No. 677. Okimono, dog standing, Hirado
porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with flowers, etc., partly in relief in blue under
the glaze, 3 inches in height, and by inches in diam
eter. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1760.
No. 678. Incense Burner, in form of dog sit
ting, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with chrysanthemum and a carp in water in relief,
and partly painted in blue under the glaze, yy inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1760.
No. 679. Incense Burner, in form of sleeping
tiger, Hirado porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with pale-yellowish celadon
glaze, and decorated in blue under the glaze, yy inches
in height. Made at Mikawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1760.
No. 680. Incense Burner, in form of hare
standing on foot-ball, Imari porcelain.
Fine white clay, the hare covered with white glaze,
and decorated with gilt and black, the foot-ball covered

1bi3en Mare.
with celadon glaze, and the rock with brown glaze, yy
inches in height. Made at Nangawara in Arita, province
of Hizen. Date, 1700.

No. 681. Okimono, figure of a woman in
the Genroku costume, Imari porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated in blue under and in black, green, red, and gilt
over the glaze, 6 y inches in height. Made at Arita, in
the province of Hizen. Date, 1800.

No. 682. Okimono, lady standing with para
sol, Imari porcelain.
White clay, covered with white glaze, and decorated
in blue under and in colored enamels and gilt over the
glaze, 12^ inches in height. Made at Arita, in the
province of Hizen. Date, 1650.

No. 683. Incense Burner, in form of dog foo,
Imari porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with colored enamels and gilt over the glaze,
yy inches in height. Made at Arita, in the province
of Hizen.

1bi3en Mare.
No. 684. Okimono, lion, white Nabashima
porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with white glaze, 2 inches
in height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.

No. 685. Incense Burner, in form of Baku,
Nabeshima porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, 6 inches
in height. Made at Okawachi, in the province of Hizen.
Date, 1800.

No. 686. Okimono, dog foo, Nabeshima por
celain.
Fine white day, covered with celadon glaze, 10^
inches in height, and 1 1 inches in length. Made at
Okawachi, in the province of Hizen. Date, 1750.

No. 687. Paper Weight, dog foo on stand,
Imari porcelain.
Fine white day, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated in blue under the glaze, 1 y inches in height.
Made by Kingaku at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Mark, Hizen Kanyo Kingaku, painted. Date, 1870.
297

1bi3en Mare.
No. 688. Paper Weight, dragon coiled, Imari
porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated in blue under the glaze, i y inches in height.
Made by Kingaku at Arita, in the province of Hizen.
Mark, Hizen Kanyo Kingaku, painted. Date, 1870.
No. 689. Door Ornament, in form of chrys
anthemum, Nabeshima porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, 1 y inches
by 3 inches. Made at Okawachi, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 689A. Okimono, figure of priest seated,
Imari porcelain.
Fine white clay, unglazed, and the face and head,
shoulder and hand covered with lacquer and gilt, yy
inches in height. Made at Arita, in the province of
Hizen. Date, 1800.
No. 690. Okimono, sleeping dragon, Hirado
porcelain.
Fine white clay, unglazed, 2y inches by 3 inches.
Made at Mikawachi, in the province of Hizen. Mark,
Mikawachi Yama Chikuwo Tsukuru, incised. Date,
1870. 298

Banko Mare.
No. 690A. Okimono, figure of Shotoku Tai-
shi, Kakiyemon porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with celadon glaze, 9 inches
in height. Made by Kakiyemon at Nangawara, in
Arita, province of Hizen. Mark, Meireki Gan nen Sa-
kaida Kakiyemon Korewo Tsukuru, painted in blue
under the glaze (Made by Kakiyemon in January of
the first year of Meireki, 1655). Date, 1655.

province of Use.
No. 691. Incense Box, an ox lying down,
Banko faience.
Fine gray day, covered with gilt and green glaze,
2 inches in height, and 3 inches long. Made at Kuwana,
in the province of Ise. Mark, Banko, impressed. Date,
1770.
No. 692. Incense Box, an ox lying down,
Banko faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with purple and green glaze,
2y2 inches in height, and yy inches long. Made at
Kuwana, in the province of Ise. Date, 1770.
299

flwami Mare.

province of Ifwaki.
No. 693. Sake Cup, a mask of Tengu, Soma
faience.
Coarse sandy-gray clay, covered with gray glaze,
and decorated in brown under the glaze, 4^ inches in
height. Made at Nakamura, in the province of Iwaki.
Mark, two galloping horses. Date, 1850.

province of Hwami.
No. 694. Okimono, figure of Tekkai, Iwami
faience.
Fine yellowish clay, covered with yellow-brown ame
glaze, 12^ inches in height. Made by Nagami Gan at
Sankaizan, in the province of Iwami. Mark, Gan, im
pressed. Date, 1820.

fllMnato Mare.

province of Hwasbiro.
No. 695. Incense Box, a fox dressed in a
priest's robe, Aidsu stoneware.
Fine gray clay, unglazed, 2iy inches in height. Made
at Aidsu, in the province of Iwashiro. Mark, Meiji
Jushi Shinki nen Moshun Kain Kozan Tsukuru (Made
by Kozan the last month of spring in the fourteenth year
of Meiji at Hongo Aidsu). Date, 188 1.

province of Hosnmi.
No. 696. Okimono, figure of Gama seated
with his favorite frog on his shoulder,
Minato faience.
Hard reddish day, covered with dull greenish-gray
glaze, iby inches in height. Made at Minato, in the
province of Idsumi. Date, 1800.
301

Ikutani Mare.

province of IRaga.
No. 697. Okimono, figure of Daikoku with
a counting-board, Kaga porcelain.
Coarse white day, covered with dull white glaze, and
decorated with green, purple, and blue enamels over
the glaze, yy inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the
province of Kaga. Date, 1 800.

No. 698. Okimono, figure of Yebisu with a
ledger, Kaga porcelain.
Coarse white clay, covered with white glaze, and
decorated with blue, green, and purple enamels over
the glaze, yy inches in height. Made at Kutani, in the
province of Kaga. Date, 1800.

No. 699. Incense Box, a sleeping duck, Kaga
porcelain.
Coarse white clay, covered with white glaze, and
decorated with blue, green, purple, and yellow enamels
over the glaze, 3 inches long, and 1 y inches in height.
Made at Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1850.
302

Ikisbiu Mare.
No. 700. Incense Burner, a cock, Kaga por
celain.
Coarse gray clay, covered with dull white glaze, and
decorated with black, blue, green, red, and yellow
enamels over the glaze, 1 1 inches in height. Made at
Kutani, in the province of Kaga. Date, 1 700.

province of Ikii.
No. 701. Okimono, figure of Genius with a
rat, Kishiu porcelain.
White clay, covered with dull celadon glaze, by
inches in height. Made at Otokoyama, in the province
of Kii. Mark, Nanki Otokoyama, painted, and Semba,
impressed. Date, 1850.
No. 702. Cake Dish, in form of tortoise,
Kishiu porcelain.
White clay, covered with white glaze, and decorated
in blue under the glaze, 5 inches in height, and 1 1 y
inches long. Made at Otokoyama, in the province of
Kii. Mark, Nanki Otokoyama, painted. Date, 1850

flfeusasbi Mare.

province of flfeusasbi.
No. 703. Votive Offering, group of seven
gods of happiness, Imado faience.
Soft yellowish day, varnished with lacquer, yy2
inches in height. Made by Benshi at Imado, in Tokio,
province of Musashi. Mark, Benshi, impressed. Date,
1772.

No. 704. Okimono, dog foo with ball, Raku
rakuyen stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with yellowish-brown glaze,
3 inches in height. Made at Rakurakuyen in Tokio,
province of Musashi. Mark, Rakurakuyen Sei, im
pressed. Date, 1830.

No. 705. Okimono, figure of tortoise on rock,
Rakurakuyen stoneware.
Gray day, covered with grayish-brown glaze, 6 inches
in height, and 1 1 inches in diameter. Made by Masaki
at Tokio, province of Musashi. Date, 1820.

©wari Mare.

province of ©wari.

No. 706. Okimono, figure of Benzaiten seated
on rock, Seto porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, yy inches
in height. Made at Seto, in the province of Owari.
Date, 1800.

No. 707. Seal, square, with unicorn handle,
Seto porcelain.
Fine white clay, unglazed, yy inches in height, and
3 inches square. Made by Sosendo at Seto, in the
province of Owari. Date, 1820.

No. 708. Okimono, models of houses (2),
Seto porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, and deco
rated with blue, green, and brown enamels. Made at
Seto, in the province of Owari. Date, 1850.
21 305

Satsuma Mare.

province of Satsuma.
No. 709. Okimono, monkeys on rock, Sat
suma faience.
Fine gray clay, the monkeys covered with crackled
creamy-white glaze, and rock with greenish-black glaze,
8 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1750.

No. 710. Okimono, figure of Kwannon, Sat
suma faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, 8y inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1 800.

No. 711. Okimono, camellia-leaves with a
bud, Satsuma faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, and shaded in pale green under the glaze, 2 inches
in height, and by inches long. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.
306

Satsuma Mare.
No. 712. Okimono, figure of Hitomaro the
poet, Satsuma faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, and decorated with colored enamels and gilt over
the glaze, 14 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa,
in the province of Satsuma. Date, 1870.

No. 713. Sake Bottle, in form of egg-plant,
Satsuma faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with purple and white glaze,
by inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1 800.

No. 714. Sake Bottle, in form of egg-plant,
Satsuma faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with purple and white glaze,
8 inches in height. Made at Nayeshirogawa, in the
province of Satsuma. Date, 1800.

Settsu Mare.

province of Settsu.
No. 715. Okimono, tortoise, Kikko faience.
Soft yellowish day, the upper shell covered with yel
low glaze, 2y inches in height, and by inches long.
Made by Kikko at Osaka, in the province of Settsu.
Mark, Kikko, impressed. Date, 1850.

No. 716. Okimono, figure of Hitomaro the
poet, Sanda porcelain.
Fine gray clay, covered with celadon glaze, except
head and face, 10 inches in height. Made at Sanda, in
the province of Settsu. Date, 1800.

No. 717. Okimono, figure of Hotei and chil
dren, Sanda porcelain.
Hard reddish clay, covered with celadon glaze, except
the face and arms and chest, which are unglazed, 10
inches in height. Made at Sanda, in the province of
Settsu. Date, 1700.

Sbiboro Mare.

province of totomi.
No. 718. Okimono, figure of Hotei, Shidoro
stoneware.
Hard fine gray clay, covered with pear-skin glaze,
8 inches in height. Made at Shidoro, in the province of
Totomi. Date, 1770.

No. 719. Okimono, figure of rats on rolled
straw mats, Shidoro stoneware.
Hard fine gray clay, covered partly with pear-skin
glaze, and partly unglazed, 8 inches in height. Made at
Shidoro, in the province of T5t5mi. Date, 1770.

province of jpamasbiro.
No. 720. Okimono, figure of Oni (or imp)
with lantern, Kiyomidsu stoneware.
Unglazed, hard gray day, 1 1 inches in height. Made at
Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
12A 309

Ikioto Mare.
No. 72 1 . Okimono, figure of Otafuku, Kiyo
midsu stoneware.
Hard fine gray clay, covered with dull thick-gray
glaze, and decorated in dark brown under the glaze,
\2*y inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

No. 722. Okimono, two figures, Sogano
Goro and Asaina Saburo, Kioto faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, and decorated in colored enamels and gilt over
the glaze, 10 inches and 1 5 inches in height respectively.
Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1750.

No. 723. Incense Box, in form of duck, Kioto
faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, and decorated with blue and green enamels and
gilt over the glaze, 2^ inches in height. Made at
Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Ninsei,
impressed. (A copy.) Date, 1750.
310

Ikioto Mare.
No. 724. Incense Burner, dog foo, Kioto
faience.
Hard gray clay, covered with dull-gray glaze, and
touched with brown under the glaze, yy2 inches in
height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1700.

No. 725. Okimono, bird on rock, Kioto
faience.
Hard gray clay, the bird covered with blue glaze, and
the rock with flambe glaze, yy inches in height. Made
at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1850.
No. 726. Incense Burner, dog foo with ball,
Kioto faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy-white
glaze, and decorated with blue and green enamels and
gilt over the glaze, 4^ inches in height. Made at
Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1 700.
No. 727. Okimono, figure of Hotei dancing,
Kioto faience.
Fine gray clay, partly covered with crackled creamy-
white glaze, and partly unglazed, and decorated in col-

Ikioto Mare.
ored enamels over the glaze, yy inches in height.
Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1850.
No. 728. Sake Bottle, round shape, Awata
faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled green glaze,
and decorated with figure subject in relief under the
glaze, 5 inches in height. Made by Hozan at Awata, in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Mark, Hozan, impressed.
Date, 1800.
No. 729. Incense Burner, figure of Hotei with
boy, Kioto faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled gray glaze, and
decorated in black, brown, and blue under the glaze, 4
inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 730. Okimono, figure of Daikoku sitting
on rice mortar, Awata faience.
Fine gray clay, the figure covered with crackled
creamy-white glaze, and decorated in enamels and gilt,
and the mortar lacquered and gilded, yy inches in
height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Date, 1700.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 73 1 . Okimono, figure of Hotei and child,
Awata faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy glaze,
and decorated in colored enamels and gilt over the
glaze, yy inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.
No. 732. Okimono, figure of Hitomaro the
poet, Awata faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with crackled creamy glaze,
and decorated in colored enamels and gilt over the
glaze, 8 inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1 800.
No. 733. Incense Burner, in form of helmet,
Kioto faience.
Fine gray day, covered with crackled creamy glaze,
and decorated with colored enamels and gilt over the
glaze, 4y inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1750.
No. 734. Okimono, figure of Yebisu on carp,
Awata faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with colored enamels, yy
inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1800. 313

Ikioto Mare.
No. 735. Okimono, figure on rock, Kioto
faience.
Fine gray clay, the tiger covered with white glaze,
and decorated in brown and yellow under the glaze,
and red over the glaze, and the rock unglazed and var
nished, 10 inches in height. Made at Awata in Kioto,
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1750.

No. 736. Incense Burner, figure of Hotei,
Kioto stoneware.
Hard gray day, covered partly with crackled creamy
glaze, decorated in blue and brown under the glaze, and
partly unglazed, 6 inches in height. Made at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Mark obscure. Date, 1800.

No. 737. Okimono, Tengu coming out of
his shell, Kioto stoneware.
Hard gray clay, covered with crackled dull-creamy
glaze, and decorated in brown under the glaze, yy
inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, prov
ince of Yamashiro. Mark obscure. Date, 1850.

Ikioto Mare.
No. 738. Incense Box, in form of duck,
Kioto faience.
Fine gray clay, covered with dull-gray glaze, and deco
rated in enamels and gilt over the glaze, 2 inches in
height. Made at Awata in Kioto, province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Ninsei, impressed. (A copy.) Date, 1800.
No. 739. Okimono, figure of Genius with
gourd, Kioto faience.
Hard reddish day, covered with greenish-gray glaze,
yy inches in height. Made by Mokubei at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Mokubei, incised.
Date, 1810.
No. 740. Okimono, figure of man grinding
tea, Kioto faience.
Hard gray clay, covered with pale celadon and Shin-
sha glazes, 8 inches in height. Made at Kiyomidsu in
Kioto, province of Yamashiro. Date, 1850.
No. 741. Okimono, figure of Otafuku, Kioto
faience.
Fine yellowish day, partly glazed, and decorated in
colored enamels, 8 inches in height. Made at Kioto, in
the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Kenzan, painted. (A
copy.) Date, 1750. 315

Ikioto Mare.
No. 742. Ornamental Fireplace Cover, Kioto
faience.
Coarse gray clay, covered with yellow glaze, the orna
mental dog on the top artistically modeled, 13^ inches
square, and 9 inches in height. Made by Dohachi at
Kioto, in the province of Yamashiro. Mark, Hokio
Niami Tsukuru, incised, and seal mark, Niami, im
pressed. Date, 1830.
No. 743. Okimono, pagoda, Kioto porcelain.
Fine white clay, covered with white glaze, with the
roofs and base varnished in black, 1 1 inches in height.
Made at Kiyomidsu in Kioto, province of Yamashiro.
Mark, Kahei, incised. Date, 1850.
No. 744. Okimono, figure of Daruma, Fuka-
kusa faience.
Yellowish clay, unglazed and varnished, 6 inches in
height. Made at Fushimi, in the province of Yama
shiro. Mark, Hokikudo Shujin Kinsha (Copied by
the owner of Hokikudo). Date, 1850.
No. 745. Okimono, figure of nobleman's
page, Fushimi faience.
Soft yellowish clay, decorated in lacquer, yy inches
in height. Made at Fushimi, in the province of Yama-
316

Ikioto Mare.
shiro. Mark, Bunroku San Kogo Nigatsu Koyemon Ko
(Made by Koyemon in February of the third year of Bun
roku, 1 594). This is a good copy of Koyemon's work.
Date, 1800.

No. 746. Incense Burner, in form of pheas
ant on rock, Fukakusa faience.
Fine gray day, painted in colors over thin glaze, 9
inches in height. Made at Fushimi, in the province of
Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

No. 747. Incense Burner, in form of hawk
on rock, Fukakusa stoneware.
Fine hard gray clay, covered with white glaze, and
decorated in black, 13^ inches in height. Made at
Fukakusa in Fushimi, province of Yamashiro. Date,
1850.

No. 748. Okimono, figure of Jurojin dancing,
Kioto faience.
Fine gray day, covered with red lacquer, yy inches
in height. Made at Kioto, in the province of Yama
shiro. Mark obscure. Date, 1800.
317

yamato Mare.
No. 749. Okimono, two "No" dancers,
Kioto faience.
Fine reddish day, and decorated in colors partly lac
quered, 9 inches in height. Made at Kioto, in the
province of Yamashiro. Date, 1800.

province of Yamato.
No. 750. Okimono, figure of dog foo, Nara
earthenware.
Soft yellowish day, unglazed, 5 inches in height.
Made at Nara, in the province of Yamato. Date, 1750.

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