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Subject:Re: More information about 5 wall plates please
Posted By: Bill H Mon, Jun 27, 2022
The historic Fukagawa Koransha company remains alive and well with headquarters in Tokyo's Ginza district. In my opinion, your dishes are a quite modern product of the company with decoration applied by transfer or other mechanical means, noticeable in the fact that they are all clones of the same unvarying design, whereas 19th century Koransha products were handpainted.
Koransha exhibited in New York in 2020. See the link below, which has a time line of company history and other info.
I've attached images of one of my favorite pieces of Koransha porcelain, an immaculately painted tripod cup with orchid mark and signature of Toshikian Kiso, artistic name of Fukami Sumi-No-Suke (D. 1886), a co founder of the Seiji Kaisha company and descendant of Fukami Obasen, who was among the Korean potters captured and sent to Japan by forces of the Warlord (Daimyo) Hideyoshi when they withdrew from the peninsula after their unsuccessful invasion attempt of 1592.
Best regards,
Bill H.
https://www.koransha.co.jp/koransha/koransha_english.html
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