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u THE CATALOGUE

NAGARAYAMA (Case 7)
In the year 1850 a pottery was started in Miiderayama, and continued for a short
time only. Ninagawa in his work figures a broken specimen, and this is the
only one that I have ever seen bearing a mark.
7o9' Cake-dish, rectangular, with short looped supports. L. 5 in. Moulded.
Light fawn clay, dull white glaze, dull brown areas across one corner, with brown
scrawls on bottom inside. The piece had a looped handle, which has been broken
away. Nagarayama (imp.). 1840
789
Type Ninagawa. Vol. VI-, Fig. 22.
790. Cake-dish, three square openings cut in rim. D. 4f in. Light brown clay, thick
gray glaze creeping away from clay. Latticework in three panels in white, gray, and brown
inside and out. Unsigned. 1840
TORAKICHI (Case 7)

Three pieces in the collection having a dark yellow glaze have been identified as
Omi ; if so, they were probably baked in Zeze village, and date back to 1840. Ninagawa
in his notes mentions a potter named Torakichi, who came from Ky5to and settled in
Zeze. His work was known as Zezetora. The mark Yakitora implies that it was
baked by Tora, and presumably by TorakichL
791- Bowl. D. \\ in. Fine light fawn clay, bright yellow orange glaze. Design of scroll
lines deeply incised. Yakitora (imp.). 1850
792. Similar to last, without design. Yakitora (imp.).
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793*' Fine reddish clay, deep
in.
Dish, modeled in form of tub.
D. 4I
orange glaze. Three lions' heads moulded for supports. Yakitora (imp.).
793
_ 1850
YUKO (Case 7)
Strongly marked black Raku bowls, bearing the mark Yuko, have been identified
as Shigarakl One authority says that they were made by the author of Tokiko
in 1850.
794- Raku tea-bowl. D. 4f in. Coarse clay, thick black glaze with mottled red areas.
Yiko (imp.). 1850
795* Bowl. D. 4 in. Straight sides, thick moulded rim. Hard ^
gray clay, thin bluish-black glaze with light brownish areas. Large
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circular areas of white glaze, on which is a chrysanthemum roughly
outlined in black. Yitko (imp.). 1850
796*. Shallow CUP. D. 4y'g in. Reddish Raku clay, white under-
794 796
glaze, thick light reddish Raku overglaze, coarsely crackled. Sil-
vered inside. YUko (imp.). 1850
BASHODO (Case 7)
Small tea-pots, unglazed, with the written mark of
Baslwdd, were made in a small village of that name. >tf {
The work resembles Tokoname, but has no merit. ^M
797* Tea-pot. D. 2| in. Light grayish-fawn clay, un- A
glazed. Poem and Bashodo written in brown. 1874
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