48o ART INDUSTRY AND RELATED OCCUPATIONS. 



practised till later, when a younger member of the Toshiro family 

 of potters, Kato-Tamikachi by name, discovered by stratagem the 

 secret of the Arita potters. 



Mino-yaki. The Mino wares, made up almost entirely of small 

 useful articles, like teapots, plates, dishes, and rice-bowls, Sake- 

 flasks, etc., are generally not so finely decorated as those of Seto, 

 and are more adapted to the means and needs of the common 

 people. Many sorts of earthen dishes are found among them ; 

 some of such excellent material and careful workmanship, that 

 they might serve as a pattern for many of our common potters. 

 The porcelain industry followed that of Seto, and was not intro- 

 duced until i8io. It extends as far northward as the village of 

 Nakatsugawa on the Nakasendo. It is carried on in a number of 

 villages near to Ovvari, especially in Takayama, Tajimi, and Ichi- 

 nokura. The most beautiful workmanship is to be found in small 

 tea and Sake dishes of the finest porcelain, whose thin walls are 

 produced by turning the air-dried form on the wheel, as in Hizen, 

 and decorated, either in the above-named places or in Tokio, with 

 muffle colours. 



Ota-yaki, Makudzu-yaki. 



In 1872 a merchant, Suzuki of Yokohama, established a factory 

 in the neighbouring town of Ota, with the intention to manufacture 

 Satsuma and other Faience, as well as porcelain, and especially 

 to meet the demand of the foreign market for decorative pieces. 

 He secured a potter by the name of Miyakawa Kozan, from Kioto, 

 as director. Vases were manufactured principally, and Amakusa- 

 ishi and several clays from the neighbouring Musashi were used as 

 raw materials. Later, the business is said to have passed to 

 Miyakawa, and the products have often been designated after his 

 former residence, Makudzu-ga-hara, in Kioto. Miyakawa dis- 

 played an uncommon activity, and was inexhaustible in the in- 

 vention and employment of new designs of decoration, especially 

 in high relief. His productions, which during the last fifteen years 

 have been exported in large quantities and attracted much atten- 

 tion at the great International Industrial Exhibitions, betray many 

 departures from good taste, together wnth some very original and 

 beautiful designs. There were, for instance, at the Paris Exhibi- 

 tion large vases of long, cigar shape, with a striped glaze having 

 the colouring of the Awata-yaki, around which large rusty anchors 

 were represented in high relief, and on them little goblins sitting. 

 There were other vases which were made with a lumpy or knobby 

 surface in the lower part, resembling that of a wall which has 

 been plastered with pasty cement mixed with little gravel stones. 

 Open-work basket and bamboo weaving was also imitated with 

 great exactness. All this impressed the judges in such a manner, 

 that they added to the distinctions already received in Vienna 



