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KIOTO POTTERY. 137
No. 270.
Taken from a Tea Bowl of faience made by Taizan, and
probably decorated at Tokio, The mark of the maker is
impressed underneath the bowl the other marks are painted
;
in gold upon the interior of it, and refer to the subject of
the decoration. The characters to the right are Chioku-sho
SoNG-sHA, meaning The Priest Chiokiisho. Those to the left
are Dai Nip-pon, Bi-zan yegaku. Painted by Bizan, Great
Japan.
No. 271.
Taken from a Tea Bowl of similar character to that named
above. The inscriptions read Dai Nip-pon, Bi-zan yegaku.
Kua-o Song-sha. The Priest Kuao, painted by Bizan, Great
Japan.
