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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. 1.0 1.1 This occurs as .


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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