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TOKIO PAINTING AND POTTERY. 197
No, 470.
The inscriptions numbered 467 to 470 appear in relief
upon the sides of a Flower Basket of faience, made at
Imado, a district of Tokio, in the latter part of the i8th
century they are one-fourth of the original size. The inscrip-
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tions, read from the upper characters of each column
commencing with those to the right, and concluding with
the single character in the upper part of the mark given
above, run as follows : Kai-gen ni-jiu-yo nen natsu sei-siio
CHIOKU-SHI Ko-rioku-shi TAMOO SAI-SHIN haku-u-sen Kiu-rei
AzuKARu yen tattsute KEN-JIN iwAKu. It is a portion of
a description of a scene at the Chinese Court ; In June,
the summer of the 24th year of Kaigen, the imperial messenger,
Koriokushi, brings the fans of white feathers to the ministers,
among whom ivas Kiurei, and standing before them he presents
the imperial gifts, and says . The centre inscription of
No. 470 is Tokishio, the name of the Chinese scholar who
wrote the phrase'"; the right-hand characters in the seal-mark
are Sohaku, his professional name, and the left-hand characters
are Gakushi, a title given to learned men.
