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KAKIYEMON.
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works, 'cup and saucer, lady pattern,' the shape being
octagon.
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Upon my vase there is what was intended for the sacred
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bird rather than a peacock seated upon a tree, on each panel,
the tree in two cases being the prunus, in two a pine, and in
two a bamboo. In each case, the trunk is of a solid blue
enamel, outlined with black, the attitude of the bird in each
but with
slightly changed, always green neck and back, yellow
breast, and iron-red tail. 'Du Sartel,' in his fine work
illustrated with colour two vases similar
printing, depicts very
to mine, one on its and the other with
having figures panels,
with of meanders on
prunus panels, alternating panels green
an iron-red the shoulder of the vase
ground, being precisely
like mine.
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Jacquemart depicts a round vase of similar outline,
the decoration carried all round; and an American author,
one Mr. Prime, in an article upon Chinese porcelain, gives a
plate representing a vase shaped precisely like my hexagon,
decorated blue and with the
(in white) tiger apparently getting
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into a with the and banded
scrape palm tree, trap, hedge
(No. 843). By the French, you may remember, this ' banded
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hedge was early mistaken for a wheat-sheaf, and the pattern
or ' motive ' has ever been called by them the decoration ' a
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gerbe.'
In "Japanese Pottery" (at p. 86), Sir Wollaston Franks
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says : A native of Imary, in the same province (Hizen),
named had learned from a
Higashi-shima Tokuzayemon,
Chinaman who visited the method of with
Nagasaki, painting
vitreous colours upon the glaze, and with the assistance of
another named Gosu G-ombei, he succeeded, after various
potter
experiments, lasting over many years. In the second year
of Sho-ho (A.D. 1645) was commenced the export of pieces
ornamented with coloured enamels, in and silver, etc.
gold ;
in the first to a Chinaman named Hachikan. Business
place
was then opened with the Dutch market. The kind of
decoration employed at this factory has become its peculiar
monopoly, and has been made especially for the foreign
market, and is evidently what is known in Europe as 'old
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Japan.'
Japanese friends tell the writer this account is virtually