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Wood storage box signed Suisaka-yaki shibugamide toshite zeppin de aru [this is a superlative example of Suisaka ware with shibugamide glaze] and signed and sealed Hakureiken
The Suisaka kiln was located at Nangomura in Kaga province (present-day Kaga City, Ishikawa prefecture) and was founded in the early- to mid- seventeenth century by potters summoned to Kaga by Maeda Toshitsune, third daimyo [feudal lord] of the region. Its style combines elements seen in several other contemporary ceramic traditions including Bizen and Seto, from which the so-called shibugamide glaze (resembling Japanese paper stained with persimmon juice) was derived. See Kato Tokuro, Genshoku toki daijiten [Illustrated ceramic dictionary] (Tokyo, Tankosha, 1972), pp. 437, 487.
The Suisaka kiln was located at Nangomura in Kaga province (present-day Kaga City, Ishikawa prefecture) and was founded in the early- to mid- seventeenth century by potters summoned to Kaga by Maeda Toshitsune, third daimyo [feudal lord] of the region. Its style combines elements seen in several other contemporary ceramic traditions including Bizen and Seto, from which the so-called shibugamide glaze (resembling Japanese paper stained with persimmon juice) was derived. See Kato Tokuro, Genshoku toki daijiten [Illustrated ceramic dictionary] (Tokyo, Tankosha, 1972), pp. 437, 487.