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Japan Ese Pottery Being a Native Report with an Introduction And S OUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUM ART HANDBOOK JAPANESE POTTERY J A PA N E S E POTT E RY BE IN G A N ATIV E REPORT WITH A N I NTROD U CTION A N D C ATA LOGU E w R N M A . P. A U GUS T US F A KS , . , S A . WITH I LLUSTRATI O N S AN D MARKS ” ’ ‘ ' P ublic/zed f or 1113 Commz z fee of Counc il on E duc alz on BY L . LOND ON : C HA PMA N A N D HA LL, D F . M . E V N S A N D c o . L I M IT E D C RYS T L P L CE A , , A A A , CON TEN TS . H isto ry Tec hnique S hapes and uses o f vases Dec o rati on Marks REPORT A N D CATA LOGU E A nc ient wares Karatsu ware Seto ware Xi- Seto ware Shin o ware Ge m pin ware Oribe ware S eto - Suke ware Seto - Kuro ware I nu- yam a ware Mi no ware Bizen ware vi jA P A N E S E P OTTE R Y. hi araki 0 0 S g ware 0 I ga ware Tamba ware Shito to ware Zeze A sahi ware Takatori ware Hagi ware Matsum o to ware idsum o ware Fujxna ware A kahada ware Minato ware Yanagawa ware T oyo - ura ware Raku ware Ohi ware H oraku ware [A sakusa] Raku ware [To kio] Raku ware [Osaka] Raku ware [Dfihac hi] Raku ware Fushimiware I mado ware Ki6to ( S aikiyo ) fac tories N inseiware A wata ware Kenz an ware Kiyom idz u ware Ye iraku ware O to ware N T T CO E N S . vii A wajl ware S atsuma ware Yatsu - shiro ware Soma ware Banko ware Yedo Bank o ware I se Banko ware H iz en fac tories S honsuiware A rita ware Okawajl ware - Shim ishi ware . Kameyama ware S anda ware Tozan ware Ota ware A dditional Spec imens LI ST OF POTT ERS A N D DE CORATORS WHO EXH I BITED TH E PARI S I N 1 8 EXH I BIT O , 87 I N DEX 0 0 0 0 0 0 I N LI S T OF I LLU S T RA T O S . PAG E B m o o sk and o n d s o o n s d in c m o ni s a b whi j i te p , u e the tea ere e k - Ino n m d o f n om n s Ki u , the i perial ba ge Japa (fr a Japa e e peerage) Badge o f the To kugawa fam ily (fro m a Japanese roll) ’ - m o n o f k o f m f o m n s Kiri , the badge the Mi ad s a ily ( r a Japa e e peerage) n s c n an m m Of on om n o o dc Japa e e ra e, e ble l gevity (fr a ative w ut) 1 A nc n s c c B . C. 6 0 . ie t va e, ir a 4 2 . k c c . D . 0 Flas , ir a A 7 3 k o n s 3. Mar Karat u ware T ea o f o 4 . jar Set ware I nc n s n o f o 5 . e e bur er Set ware o f Fukuroku iu o f Ki- S o 6. Figure j et ware k o n o - uké 7 . Mar Set S k o n n o 8 . Mar Mi ware I n c o n o n B n 9. s ripti ize ware k o n B n 1 0 . Mar ize ware I I . 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