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MISCELLANEOUS WARES

becoming clearer when the varying quantities of water contained in the unstoved masses are eliminated:—

COMPOSITION OF JAPANESE PORCELAINS AND FAIENCES
(ANHYDROUS)

Porcelain.	Silica.	Alumina.	Iron Oxide.	Lime.	Magnesia.	Potash.	Soda.
Owari	70.57	20.97	0.75	0.67	0.26	4.34	1.94
Kyōtō	73.66	20.04	0.67	0.62	0.12	2.97	1.84
Satsuma	77.10	17.59	0.94	0.28	0.10	3.11	0.10
Iyo	76.38	18.75	0.86	0.38	0.37	3.47	0.03
Tōkyō	69.91	23.81	1.07	1.03	0.46	3.11	0.82
Yokohama	73.59	21.29	0.15	0.82	0.16	3.18	0.73
Chōshiu	74.31	20.95	0.52	0.86	0.26	0.61	2.30
Kōshiu	66.51	26.27	1.16	2.43	0.40	0.86	2.60
Tajima	74.43	21.28	0.36	0.93	0.52	1.40	0.90
Harima	71.71	22.29	0.69	0.69	0.33	3.56	—
Kaga	70.39	23.63	0.62	0.30	0.53	3.90	0.56
Aizu	78.90	16.49	0.86	0.35	0.06	2.28	0.56
Arita	77.08	18.29	0.68	0.48	0.30	2.57	0.65
Faience.
Awata	64.03	30.56	0.81	0.51	0.29	2.02	1.10
Satsuma	65.99	31.13	0.40	0.44	0.29	1.83	0.47
Awaji	67.47	27.37	1.05	0.55	0.13	2.55	0.56
Bizen	62.68	28.37	0.92	0.86	0.41	3.00	2.91
Chōshiu	63.41	32.88	1.91	0.35	0.25	1.59	0.06
Yokohama	64.76	32.88	0.18	0.43	0.11	1.15	—
Aizu	63.66	28.83	2.35	0.67	0.59	3.65	—
Banko (white)	72.10	25.16	1.63[1]	0.25	—	0.03	0.33
Banko (brown)	60.17	23.28	5.08[1]	1.20	—	—	—

1. This occurs as $Fe_{2}O_{3}$.

Readers who have travelled through this long and often tedious story of Japanese porcelain and pottery, will probably have observed that the products of the keramic art of Japan group themselves into two divisions, the one conventional and archaic, the other original and natural. Throughout the whole of Japanese Art this line of demarcation is plainly visible. It is probably due, in great part, to the religious cult which prescribed ancestral worship. People who, year after year, pray and burn incense before the mortuary tablets of their forefathers, cannot choose but become imbued with reverence for the works of

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