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286 LACQUER WARE.
No. 623.
Painted in gold upon a Paper Box of rustic wood-work
decorated with gold lacquer. Fu-so, Mi. koku jiu. These
are the right-hand characters : they mean, Resident of the
province of Mimasaka, the character Mi being an abbreviation
of the name of this province. Fuso is one of the names by
which Japan is known. The three characters on the left
cannot be literally rendered into English, but they mean that
the maker was a native of Kazusa, and that his professional
name was Usuke. The seal is that of Yoshikawa, the maker.
No. 624. No. 625.
Painted in black, the lower character stamped in red, upon
slate-coloured lacquer; No. 624, upon a Writing Table, and
No. 625 upon a Writing Case. Haru-masa Sei-ho. Harumasa
Seiko, the name of the maker.
