July, 191 2. Chinese Pottery. 37 



of a tripod vessel (gotoku) with which it is provided is also a tripod vessel 

 of the Namban. 



On the preceding pages the difference between Korean and Namban 

 pottery has been explained. Further details will follow. Namban 

 are the various countries as described in the previous notes (koguchi- 

 gaki). 



Namban pottery provided with the seal of the oven from which it 

 originates is usually not recognized as such by our contemporaries, 



though clay and glaze point to its being Namban. The mark 1 1 

 finely made on Imbe ware, the mark >\ on a jar (tsubo) of Bizen, the 



T 



mark I three times on a tea-canister (cha-ire) of the same ware, and 



the mark Roku-zo on a pitcher (mizusashi) , and marks on several other 

 potteries represent the national writing of Luzon (Luzon-no kokuji)} 

 Also a deep-brown glazed tea-canister (shibu yaku-no cha-ire) on which 



the character t"^ 3 is written consists of Namban clay. Some of these 



t 



marks may have been produced by Japanese who crossed over; but 

 others may have been made by the natives (Man-jin), for it cannot be 

 ruled that Namban has no marks of the furnace. There is, e. g., on a 

 fire-pan (hi-ire) of Annam the mark Ta-kang 4 impressed by means 

 of a seal, which is the name of the maker. The tea-canisters called 

 Chosen-Garatsu (Korean Karatsu) 5 which have a plant-green (moyegi) 

 glaze and purplish clay, or also dark-brown (shibu) glaze with purplish 

 clay are taken by our contemporaries for real Karatsu-make on account 

 of their seals of the furnace, but I consider them as foreign manufac- 



1 This is a Chinese character {ting, Jap. tei). Imbe pottery is characterized by 

 a great variety of peculiar marks the significance of most of which is unknown (see 

 Morse, pp. 49 et seq.). 



2 The following characters, found in Philippine alphabets, resemble somewhat 



\ 



: Pampanga; 5 Tagalog; ^ 



> Visayan ; 



the markings on these vessels: Pampanga; 3 Tagalog; ? Ilocano, 



equivalents for la; \ Visayan; Pampanga and Tagbanua for na; 



Tagbanua for ka. [F. C. C] 



3 Denoting the numeral 7. 



4 The two characters are transcribed according to the Annamite pronunciation. 



5 Brinkley, p. 310. 



