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there are designs of tomoye and three apertures. Shino has nothing 

 of the kind. 



7. The tea-canisters of Luzon are of the best quality. Those 

 which might be confounded with Tamba are first and second grades. 

 Those looking like Seto are coarse and low grades of Luzons. They 

 are frequently found together with those ranging as second qualities 

 among the Namban. 1 The water-dishes (mizu-ire) 2 and oil-dishes 

 (abura-ire) among the Namban with yellow clay and splashes of dark- 

 brown (shibu fukidasu) are Luzons. 



8. I obtained a tea-canister of the shape 1 / similar to Tamba. 



On its shoulders, four plum-blossoms and two seals are impressed by 

 means of a stamp. The writing was first illegible, but when I rubbed 



it, it appeared as follows: 



The symbol in the latter 



seal may be the character \rji Lit in the national writing of Luzon. 4 



This vessel was of yellow clay and tea-colored glaze with splashes of 

 dark-brown (shibu). 



9. Pearl-gray celadon (shuko seiji) is the celadon (seiji) of Luzon. 



10. Sun-koroku should be written Rusun- (*. e. Luzon) koroku. 5 



1 Namban is here expressed in the text by "insular objects." 



2 Dishes containing the water to be poured on the ink-pallets and used in rubbing 

 a cake of ink. 



3 In the Japanese text, the two seals are placed the one below the other; for the 

 sake of convenience, they are here arranged side by side. 



4 This supposition is probably correct. The case is as follows. The second 

 portion of the seal plainly contains two Chinese characters reading sung ch'i; this 

 character sung is used in writing the second syllable in the name of Luzon, Chinese 

 Lii-sung, Japanese Ru-sun. It is therefore logical to conjecture the character for 

 Lii preceding that for sung. The sign in the first seal, however, is not obviously 

 identical with the latter, but apparently a variation of it in ornamental style, which, 

 as suggested by our author, may have developed on Luzon itself. If we adopt 

 this reading, we obtain the legend: Lii-sung ch'i (Chinese) or Ru-sun tsukuru (Jap- 

 anese), which means: "Luzon make," or "made on Luzon." I see no reason to 

 doubt the credibility of our informant, and take it for granted that a vessel with such 

 a seal really was in existence. This fact, then, is of great historical importance, 

 for it demonstrates that pottery may have actually been manufactured on the 

 Philippines either by Chinese or Japanese, or by both. 



5 Mr. Morse (p. 321) alludes to this passage in the following notice: "The 

 work Tokiko says that the word Sunkoroku ought to be written Rosokoroku. It 

 further adds that Sun stands for the Chinese dynasty, and Koroku the name of a 

 pottery." But it will be seen from the above text that our author means to express 

 a different sense. He is far from identifying the word Sun with the Sung dynasty, 

 but proposes to interpret it as Lii-sung, Rusun, Luzon (the reading Roso is certainly 

 possible, but the Tokiko, in the first passage where the word occurs, transcribes the 

 characters in Kana as Rusun). The pottery called Sunkoroku is, according to 

 Morse, a hard stoneware with dull yellowish or grayish clay (that having the former 



