THE FIRST SIGNED KINKOZAN, THE SECOND SIGNED DAI NIHON TAIZAN SEI, MEIJI PERIOD (LATE 19TH CENTURY)

Inscribed on a silk moth-shaped cartouche sanga hachi zu [Eight Views of Silk Worms]. Presumably this dish is one of a series of eight depicting stages of sericulture. Young silk worms were said to resemble the shape of beautiful women's eyebrows.