MARKS AND SEALS
786. | Another form of No. 783. |
786. | Tempō jūichinen Shōchō Kore wo nozomu ni yorite Kairakuyen Sei=made at the Kairakuyen factory by desire of Shōchō in the eleventh year of Tempō (1840). |
787. | Kairakuyen sei=mark of the Kairakuyen kiln. |
788. | Zuishi=mark found on ware made at the Meppō kiln from the close of the eighteenth century. |
789. | Kayei gannen Nanki Otokoyama sei=mark found on ware made at Otokoyama, after the fashion of Kairaku faïence. The date Kayei gannen corresponds to 1848. |
790. | Nanki Otokoyama=another form of No. 789. |
791. | Sansuke Seizō=mark used by Nose Sensuke, a Kishiu potter; from 1874. |
SETTSU. | |
792. | Sakurai no Sato=mark found on Sakurai ware from the close of the eighteenth century. |
793. | Kikkō=mark found on Kikkō ware, from the middle of the nineteenth century. |
794. | Jūsanken=mark found on Kikkō ware potted at Tada in Suō, from the middle of the nineteenth century. |
N.B. This ware belongs properly to the province of Suō, but as it was made by Kikkō of Osaka, the mark is placed here. | |
795. | Naniwa=mark used on Naniwa pottery (vide text). |
796. | Kosobe=mark found on Kosobe ware by Igarashi Shingorō; middle of the nineteenth century. |
797. | Kosobe=mark found on Kosobe ware by Igarashi Shimpei; end of eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth. |
798. | Kasobe=mark found on Kosobe ware by Igarashi Shinzō; first part of the nineteenth century. |
IGA. | |
799. | Iga no kuni=mark found on Iga ware of the sixteenth century. |
800. | Marubashiramura=mark found on Marubashira ware of the seventeenth century. |
MIMASAKA KATSUYAMAZAKI. | |
801. | Genroku hachinen Yōjō sei=made by Yōjō in the eighth year of Genroku (1695); a mark found on Katsuyama ware of Mimasaka. |
BUZEN. | |
802. | A spiral mark used by Hoshō at Agano, in the beginning of the nineteenth century. |
802 | –A. Denkō=a mark used at the Kaharu kiln in the Takawa district of Buzen; from the middle of the nineteenth century. The mark is the classical pronunciation of the two ideographs Ta (den) and ka (kō). |
MIYAJIMA (AKI). | |
803. | Miyajimayaki=mark found on faïence made at Miyajima about the middle of the nineteenth century. |
MITO-YAKI. | |
804. | Kōrakuyen sei=made in the Kōraku Park. |
N.B. The residence of the Mito feudal chief in Yedo was called Kōrakuyen; the potter was Azuma Kichiyemon of Kyōtō, about 1830–50. The ware is commonly called Mito-Yaki, though made in Yedo. | |
SURUGA. | |
806. | Shizuhata=mark found on ware made at Shizuhata in the middle of the nineteenth century. |
SŌMA (IWASHIRE). | |
806. | Mark found on Sōma ware of the seventeenth century. |
807. | Mark found on Sōma ware of various periods; (vide text). |
808. | Sōma=modern Sōma mark. |
809. | Sōma=modern Sōma mark. |
IKAO (JŌSHŪ). | |
810. | Rokuya, Senka, Kawazu zō=mark found on pottery made at Ikao; modern. |
811. | Saraku=another form of No. 810. |
812. | Rakuraku=another form of No. 810. |
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