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MARKS AND SEALS

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. =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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