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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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