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HICHOZAN (肥碟山)
 
Hichozan Imaizumi zo [肥蝶山今泉造],
attributed to 10代 Imaemon Imaizumi  (1847～1927)
 
Hichozan was a trade name used by a group of Arita kilns and for a Satsuma kiln.  It is not known if there was more than one Satsuma kiln but most likely there was.  There is a bowl auctioned by Waddington signed, "Dai Nippon Hichozan Satsuma [no] Kuni Kinkoku Sei Kosei-in Chikanobu ga Chikanobu Hitsu".  The artist Chikanobu lived in Kinkoku, Satsuma province.

Hichozan wares date between late Edo to Mid-Meiji era, 1860-1890s.

Certain Hichozan porcelain blanks from Arita were painted by artists located elsewhere in Japan, for example, Yamamoto Shugetsu, a decorator of porcelain, lived in Tokyo, and as noted by Lord Bowes, his signature was found on a fine egg-shell porcelain made at Arita in Hizen.  Also his trade mark appears with the trade name Hichozan on another piece.

Hichozan wares were mainly exported for the foreign market.  The wealthy merchant Tashiro Monzaemon used the trade mark Shinpo on his wares and exported these wares from Nagasaki.  Bowes noted Tashiro Monzaemon's porcelain wares  was from  Nagasaki - Nagasaki yaki (Nagasaki ware).

As stated by Lord James Bowes in his book Keramic Art of Japan in 1881, the Arita artists of Hichozan Shinpo also decorated cloisonne on porcelain.  Based on signature mark below, Hichozan Shinpo decorated cloisonne porcelain for the Nagoya Shippo Company.
 
             
1868-1890s Hichozan Jiosen (var. Jyusen), signed 肥蝶山如仙造
 
Nagasaki yaki
 
From Bowes, Keramic Art of Japan, 1881 :
 
Kaempfer tells us that this period, from the first settlement in the town and island Hirado, and the privilege of free trade and commerce, till the removal of the factory to Nagasaki, was comprised in the years between 1601 and 1641. And he further informs us that at that time the trade of the Castilians and Portuguese, who had a large and flourishing settlement at Nagasaki, and who had considerable advantage over the Dutch in certain branches of commerce, was in its greatest vigour. In 1641, however, all this had ceased, the Christian religion had been almost totally extirpated in Japan, and the Castilians and Portuguese had been finally expelled the country..From that year the Dutch were confined to the island Deshima, close to Nagasaki, where they continued their export and import trade under varying restrictions...

Nagasaki is the place where the important Portuguese trading settlement existed up to 1639, and where the Dutch factory of Deshima existed after 1641; it is also one of the principal seaports of the province of Hizen, and was no doubt that from which Tomimura Kanyemon's manufactures were shipped...

The province of Hizen appears to have at all times produced the best porcelain wares of Japan, and this fact is easily accounted for by the district furnishing the necessary materials of perfect quality for its fabrication, and in the greatest abundance. The principal supply of this petro-siliceous rock is obtained from Idsumiyama (the mountain of Idzumi), in the neighbourhood of Arita. The chronicle translated by Dr. Hoffmann enumerates eighteen principal factories situated on the slopes of this mountain, the names of which we shall give when we speak more particularly of Hizen wares. The productions of most of the factories which still exist are usually exported from the seaport of Imari, and are therefore commonly known as Imari ware.

Hizen produces all kinds of porcelain, decorated in blue, or in various colours, and with lacquer; celadon, and some varieties of stoneware; and probably the largest quantity of Keramic manufactures generally of any province in the Empire. Recent demands from European nations have caused considerable activity in certain districts of Hizen; and a common, gaudily decorated porcelain, supposed to satisfy western taste, has been exported in ship loads from Nagasaki, and is correspondingly known as Nagasaki ware.
 
Hichozan Tashiro Monzaemon Shinpo, signed 肥蝶山信甫造
 
   
1868-1890s Dai Nihon Hichozan Tashiro Monzaemon Shinpo, signed 大日本肥蝶山信甫造
 
Hichozan Tashiro Monzaemon Shinpo, signed 肥蝶山信甫造
 
SIGNATURES OF HICHOZAN 
 
Dai Nippon Hichozan Satsuma [no] Kuni Kinkoku Sei Kosei-In
Chikanobu Ga Chikanobu Hitsu,
Signed: 日本肥蝶山薩摩国金昌製??周信画周信筆.
Satsuma bowl auctioned by Waddington.
[no picture] 
 
Hichozan Fukagawa zo, 肥蝶山深川造,
Trade mark of Fukagawa Eizaemon and co., noted by http://www.koransha.co.jp/history/logo.html
Mid-Meiji era, circa 1890 
 
Hichozan Fukagawa sei, 肥蝶山深川製,
 Trade mark of Fukagawa Eizaemon and co., noted by http://www.koransha.co.jp/history/logo.html
Mid-Meiji era, circa 1890 
 
Hichozan Imaizumi zo, 肥蝶山今泉造,
 Attributed to Imaemon Imaizumi 10代 [今泉今右衛門] (1847～1927)
Dating 1860-1890s
 
   
Hichozan Jiosen* zo, 肥蝶山如仙造, *var. Jyusen.
Jiosen, a Hizen artist of the Meiji era, noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals.
Dating 1868-1890s
  
  
  Hichozan Shinpo zo, 肥蝶山信甫造,
Trade mark of Tashiro Monzaemon, noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals, as Nagasaki porcelain, Nagasaki yaki.
Dating 1860-1890s
 
   
    Hichozan Shinpo sei, 肥蝶山信甫製
Trade mark of Tashiro Monzaemon, noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals, as Nagasaki porcelain, Nagasaki yaki.
Dating 1860-1890s
  
   
Dai Nihon Shinpo zo, 大日本肥蝶山信甫造,
  Trade mark of Tashiro Monzaemon, noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals, as Nagasaki porcelain, Nagasaki yaki.
Dating 1868-1890s
 
   
Dai Nihon Shinpo sei, 大日本肥蝶山信甫製,
  Trade mark of Tashiro Monzaemon, noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals, as Nagasaki porcelain, Nagasaki yaki.
Dating 1868-1890s 
 
Hichozan Shugetsu zo, 肥蝶山秋月造,
Trade mark of Yamamoto Shugetsu, artist noted by Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals. 
Dating 1868-1890s 
   
Tokyo Yamamoto Shugetsu ga 東京山本秋月画,
Noted by Lord Bowes, 1882, Japanese Marks & Seals, red signature of Yamamoto Shugetsu of Tokyo found on fine egg-shell porcelain made at Arita in Hizen. 
Dating 1868-1890s
 
Hichozan Toshikian sei 肥蝶山年木庵製,
Trademark of Kisabu Toshikian also known by other names.
Noted by www.imari.com, name for artist Fukaumi Heizaemon.
Noted by Jahn Gisela, Meiji Ceramics, name for artist Fukami (Fukaumi) Heizaemon (Kisabu).
Noted by Meikan-web.com, name for artist Kisabu Toshikian 年木庵喜三.
Noted by Koransha.com, name for artist Kisabu Toshikian. 
Late Edo – Mid-Meiji era (1860-1880)
 
[RED] KAIYOSHA SEI ZO YUJIN TAKEUCHI (開洋社 - 製造 - ユ人 - 竹内)
KAIYO COMPANY MANUFACTURER MASTER TAKEUCHI
[BLUE] DAI NIHON HICHOZAN SHINPO ZO (大日本 - 肥蝶山 - 信甫 - 造)
GREAT JAPAN HICHOZAN SHINPO MADE
Two signature marks found on Nagoya Shippo ware.
Made under the company Kaiyosha established by Matsumura Kusuke.
Dating 1878-1885
 
References

Bowes, 1892, Japanese Marks & Seals.

www.imari.com - Informative website on imari ware

Gisela, Jahn, Meiji Ceramics.

www.meikan-web.com - Informative website on Japan artists

Koransha at www.koransha.jp

Waddington Auctions
 
 
 

 

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