MARKS AND SEALS
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Written by Sōsentei of Great Japan with one stroke of the brush. | |
| 236. | Mark used by the Kyōtō potter, Moyemon, at the close of the fifteenth century. |
| 236. | Another form of No. 235. |
| 237. | Jū=congratulation; used by Moyemon (vide No. 235). |
| 238. | Another form of No. 235. |
| 239. | Shin=a mark used by the Kyōtō potter, Shimbei, at the close of the fifteenth century. |
| 240. | Tesan="third variety"; a mark used by Shimbei (vide No. 239). |
| 241. | Te=a mark used by Shimbei (vide No. 239). |
| 242. | Mark (pine-spikelets) used by Kōsan Zembei, a Kyōtō potter, at the end of the fifteenth century and the early part of the sixteenth. |
| 243. | A mark used by Kōsan Zembei (vide No. 242). |
| 244. | Pine-spikelets=A mark used by Kōsan Zembei (vide No. 242). |
| 245. | A circular mark used by Sōhaku of Kyōtō. |
| 246. | A mountain mark; unidentified, but found on many good specimens of old Kyōtō faïence. |
| 247. | An unidentified mark. |
| 248. | Well-frame mark; unidentified, but often found on good specimens of old Kyōtō faïence. |
| 249. | Sai=intellect. Unidentified. |
| 250. | Hishigata=lozenge-shaped; an unidentified mark. |
| 251. | Uzumaki=the whirlpool mark; so called in Japan, but doubtless a fanciful reproduction of the Chinese mark. Unidentified. |
| 252. | Another form of No. 251. |
| N. B. It is probable that all the marks from 246 to 252 inclusive were used by various Kyōtō potters at different epochs. | |
| 253. | Ningyōshi Kōyemon=the figure-modeller Kōyemon (vide text). |
| 254. | Tōfukuji monzen ningyōshi Kōyemon zō=made by the figure-modeller Kōyemon before the gate of Tōfuku Temple (vide text). |
| 255. | Ninsei=the mark of Nomura Ninsei (vide text). |
| 256. 257. 258. 259. |
Forms of No. 255. |
| 260. | Seikan-ji=the Seikan Temple; a mark used by potters of the seventeenth century, and by Nomura Ninsei. |
| 261. | Another form of No. 260. |
| 262. | Ninna-ji=the temple Ninna-ji; a mark used by potters in and after the time of Nomura Ninsei. |
| 263. | Omuro=mark of the Omuro Kiln (vide text). |
| 264. | Rakutō=a mark occasionally found on Kyōtō faience of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (vide 282). |
| 265. | Otowa= mark of the Otowa Kiln (vide text). |
| 266. | Another form of No. 265. |
| 267. | Gobosatsu=mark of the Gobosatsu Kiln (vide text). |
| 268. | Another form of No. 267. |
| 269. | Sōhaku and a circle=made by Sōhaku, a nineteenth century potter of Kyōtō. |
| 270. | Oike=a mark of the Gobosatsu Kiln. |
| 271. | Awata=mark of the Awata Kiln. |
| 272. | Awata Mokubei=(made by) Mokubei at Awata. |
| 273. | Kyūkarin zō=made by Kyūkarin (another name for Mokubei). A drinking song is added, taken, with omissions, from the Chinese anthology. |
| 274. | Mokubei=(made by) Mokubei. |
| 275. | Tsumbo Bei zō=made by deaf Bei (abbreviation of Mokubei). |
| 276. | Kokikan Mokubei zō=made by Mokubei (called) Kokikan. |
| 277. | Kacho no fumoto Hōzan=(made by) Hōzan at the base of Kacho. |
| 278. | Hōzan=mark of Hōzan. |
| 279. | Another form of No. 278. |
| 280. | Takara=riches; a mark used by Hōzan. |
| 281. | Another form of No. 278. |
| 282. | ''Rakutō Hōzan Kansaku=mark used by Hōzan. |
| 283. | Taihei Hōzan=full name of Hōzan. |
| 284. | Another form of No. 278. |
| 285. | Meiji roku-nen mizunoto-tori nigwatsu Taihei Hōzan Kinsaku (tsutsushinde tsukuru)=respectfully made by Taihei Hōzan in the year 1873. 2d month. |
| 286. | Fukakusa no=mark of the Fukakusa Kiln. |
| 287. | Rakuhoku=mark of a Gobosatsu potter; eighteenth century. |
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